From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Mar 14 0: 2:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F23B837B401 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 00:02:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp2.cistron.nl (smtp2.cistron.nl [62.216.30.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE5CE43F93 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 00:02:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from basics@zenzee.cistron.nl) Received: from cust.94.12.adsl.cistron.nl ([195.64.94.12] helo=192.168.1.3) by smtp2.cistron.nl with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18tk8R-00066s-00; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:01:47 +0100 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:01:46 +0100 From: Vincent Zee To: Sue Blake Cc: FreeBSD Newbies Message-ID: <20030314090146424606.GyazMail.basics@zenzee.cistron.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030314121550.J67648@welearn.com.au> References: <20030314121550.J67648@welearn.com.au> Subject: Re: Hard words [was: Dictionary of Terms] Mime-Version: 1.0 (GMessage framework 0.9.9.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: GyazMail version 0.9.9.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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