Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:06:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant <Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk> To: Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk> Cc: Joe & Fhe Barbish <barbish@a1poweruser.com>, FBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: /etc/hosts file ? FBSD doc suck Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.31.0112121802380.14589-100000@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20011212175225.A14728@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk>
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Ceri wrote: > Could you specify _exactly_ which part of the manpage you didn't understand? Now, now. Man pages _are_ generally written from a reference point of view, not a tutorial or background (although there are some excellent overviews taking shape under section 7). There seem to be three rough categories of information that people might require here: - installation and kickoff with freebsd (probably expecting some unix knowledge) - basic "unix for dummies" kind of introductions - reference material The handbook tends to be a "how to perform task X on freebsd" - however, there are plenty of the books in the second category and I don't think (personally) that the handbook should aim to fill that niche; maybe some pointers to decent reference/tutorials for newcomers to unix. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk There's no convincing English-language argument that this sentence is true. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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