From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 26 09:45:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA18115 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 09:45:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maildeliver1.tiac.net (maildeliver1.tiac.net [199.0.65.213]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA18106 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 09:45:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailserver1.tiac.net (mailserver1.tiac.net [199.0.65.232]) by maildeliver1.tiac.net (8.6.12/8.7.4) with ESMTP id MAA06519 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:47:25 -0400 Received: from paulwade.telplus.net (ninfil003.nortel.net [137.118.1.8]) by mailserver1.tiac.net (8.6.12/8.7.4) with SMTP id MAA19096 for ; Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:47:11 -0400 Message-ID: <3180FD7B.4CA@tiac.net> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 12:44:43 -0400 From: Paul Wade Organization: Greenbush Systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: help! X-URL: http://www.freebsd.org/mailto.html Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk ok - I managed to get the minimal binaries up by ftp'ing to a win95 machine and carrying floppies to the machine on the kitchen table. Now I have the manpages.* files and want to install from floppy so I can proceed from there. How? An alternative is to use my dos/win95 machine to read docs for now. What is the best doc package for that purpose? I do have browsers,converters,etc. I hope I can help to promote your project. I have 2 domains registered and I AM ANXIOUS to get back to using a real os. I tried a lot of server/perl/html editors on windows and 95. I decided that it would be best to set up a unix platform to test on and ftp from there. The stuff I tried was unstable. I used to write device drivers for unix but my memory is tired. I have had my fingers blown off by microsoft products too many times and I am only planning to keep windows around to check my pages with popular browsers. I would be glad to devote some space at topoftheworld.com to freebsd promotion. I just moved to tiac.net because they allow scripting. I expect that most nameservers will see the change by tonight. again, if you can point me in the right direction, I am a good reader. I never took any courses but am an accomplished c and assembler programmer. Also a hardware designer. If I can help with packaging docs in the future, I will. Paul Wade