Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 08:03:42 +1100 From: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> To: "John M. Purser" <jpurser@wilcofarmers.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Newbies (E-mail)" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: John's Progress Report - The Saga Continues Message-ID: <19980328080342.29792@welearn.com.au> In-Reply-To: <01BD5956.EB889BE0.jpurser@wilcofarmers.com>; from John M. Purser on Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 08:04:06AM -0800 References: <01BD5956.EB889BE0.jpurser@wilcofarmers.com>
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On Fri, Mar 27, 1998 at 08:04:06AM -0800, John M. Purser wrote: > Hello All, > > At Sue's suggestion and with the help of the Pedantic PPP Primer (site > http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ppp/ppp.html ) I've almost finished setting up > my PPP configuration. While I have no idea if it will actually work a few > progress checks (like # hostname) indicate that I'm on the right track. > > The only snags I've found so far were the reference to /etc/sysconfig which has > been replaced by /etc/rc.conf. John, did you remember to "do the right thing" and gently point this out (the good stuff and the boo-boo) to the person who maintains the tutorial? Generally people who write these tutorials scream for helpful feedback and get far too little, especially from appreciative newbies. > I really like the ee editor. You'll grow tired of its habits when you're ready. > If I had to learn vi before I started changing my config files this would > take a lot longer! Absolutely! Non-newbies don't seem to understand that while you're doing battle to understand one Big Thing there's no brain space to learn half a dozen complex tools at the same time. Maybe it would have been better to learn the tools separately first but we don't choose the timing of our problems and hey, ee works right away! There are many powerful alternatives to vi, such as joe in the ports collection which has an identical DOS version too. -- Regards, -*Sue*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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