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Date:      Mon, 8 Jan 2001 13:02:05 +0100
From:      Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it>
To:        Edward <edvard@post.omnitel.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Fonts, filesystem hierarchy and OS development (was: Re: your mail)
Message-ID:  <20010108130205.A799@junior.kasby>
In-Reply-To: <19121911591100.00339@mainhost.ed.com>; from edvard@post.omnitel.net on Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 11:58:46AM %2B0100
References:  <19121911591100.00339@mainhost.ed.com>

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On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 11:58:46AM +0100, Edward wrote:
> 		Hello dear people,
> 	Many thanks for you help !!! You are my hope, because here in
> Lithuania I don't know any man who using UNIX :-( But I like this system very
> much and I want to work with it !!!
> 
> 	Now my questions:
> 
> 	1. I have problems with russian fonts... I don't understand general
> concepts about fonts, encodings, etc. How it works? Why when I setting up
> russian fonts in my Mozilla I being seeing "Q@$@%#%$^$%^" ??? May be I must to
> set up X Window fonts ??? Where I can get more information about fonts,
> encodings... For example if I want to write my own font server where I must
> start???
> 

Reading chapter 13 of the handbook may help.

> 	2. Where I can get UNIX folders descryption???
> 		What is "/etc" ? How it differs from "/usr/local/etc" ???
> 

man hier(7)

> 	3. If I want to write own OS or OS parts what I must to do ???
> 

To learn operating system principles read:
  - Operating Systems: Desing and Implementation, by Andrew. S. Tanenbaum
  - The Design Of the UNIX Operating System, by M. J. Bach

To learn more about FreeBSD
  - The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System, by Marshall
Kirk McKusick et al.
  - Chapter 25 of the handbook

To contribute to the FreeBSD project read first chapter 20 of the handbook.

> 		Many thanks in advace - you are like a treasure for me !
> 
> 	Edward
> 
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