From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 14 0:17:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3120237B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:17:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailf.telia.com (mailf.telia.com [194.22.194.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C44443EAC for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 00:17:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listsub@401.cx) Received: from 401.cx (malin.twenty4help.se [195.67.108.195]) by mailf.telia.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9E7H2Kn015085; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:17:06 +0200 (CEST) X-Original-Recipient: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <3DAA6EAF.90701@401.cx> Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:13:51 +0200 From: "Roger 'Rocky' Vetterberg" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Damien Tougas Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A Quick Reference Guide References: <16020000.1034368329@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Damien Tougas wrote: > Hello, > > I have been toying with the idea of writing a quick reference quide for > FreeBSD, something that people could have on thier desk for easy command > reference. It would be designed to show how to do specific, common > tasks, without going into great depth (letting that be the job of books > and man pages). This would probably not be of much use for seasoned > experts (at least initially), but might be a good resource for someone > who is new to the OS (perhaps newbies, and others more experienced who > are crossing over from other OSs). > > Anyways, I have began putting some thoughts onto paper, and thought > people might like to take a look before I get too far. A VERY > preliminary starting point can be seen by downloading > http://www.tougas.net/QuickRef.pdf > > I would be interested in hearing peoples ideas on the subject, and if > there are any requests as to what you might like to see included. Some > things that I thought about including are (in addition to basic > commands), reference pages for stuff like vi, subnet calculations, and a > page with helpful tips and tricks. > > Let me know what you think. > > Thanks. > > -- > Damien Tougas > Looks great so far. If this thing keeps growing to cover a big part of all commands available, I know I will keep it handy. I've been doing fbsd daily for 5 years but it still happens that I go to man pages to find a certain flag or argument to commands I dont use regularly. A quick reference like this would be awesome. -- R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message