Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:01:46 +0100 From: Vincent Zee <basics@zenzee.cistron.nl> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Newbies <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Hard words [was: Dictionary of Terms] Message-ID: <20030314090146424606.GyazMail.basics@zenzee.cistron.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030314121550.J67648@welearn.com.au> References: <KAEAKMACDAGFNDDHIBJIOEGPCAAA.davidc@huyett.com> <20030314121550.J67648@welearn.com.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 12:15:50 +1100, Sue Blake wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 02:15:59PM -0600, David Chavarria wrote: >> I like the man pages and the handbook, but I was wondering if anyone knew >> of a dictionary that alphabetically listed FreeBSD/Unix terms? >> >> Or, is my best bet to just man a term I don't know when I come across it? > > Some of those words will have man pages, but for a while I've been > concerned about another group of words that newbies might struggle with. > > These are ordinary everyday words that have been adopted with a > specific relevance to unix which isn't always very clear despite > the familiarity of the word. Also it can be a bit hard to translate > from the word's everyday concept to the unix concept. (snip) I really agree with you Sue and especially so for non-native english speakers like myself. It would be very nice to have a reference of this kind of computer related words. /\ Vincent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20030314090146424606.GyazMail.basics>