Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 19:09:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu> To: questions@Freebsd.org Subject: Are there any Freebsd books? Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960716185933.22821C-100000@homer26.u.washington.edu>
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I am aware of the Freebsd Documentation project, and although it has been quite helpful, it is not nearly complete. Is there any book that covers elements of BSD such as what rc files are, how tar knows where to put the extracted files, and what exactly MAKEDEV does, and what devices can it make? I have so many questions that I am left to hypothesize about. Far too many to send to questions@Freebsd.org. I have seen Berkleys BSD4.4 books, but they look to me like a hard copy of all the man pages. This isn't sufficient for a rooky like me. For example, even "apropose tgz" does not bring up any man pages. I was left to wonder what a .tgz file was until I stumbled upon the tar command. If anyone knows of a FreeBSD book that will cover more than what man covers, please let me know! Thanks, Ken Marsh
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