Date: Sun, 02 Jul 1995 11:55:06 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.cdrom.com> To: rob.rose@bigbear.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help Message-ID: <199507021855.LAA06822@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jul 95 08:22:23 -0800." <9507020822.0BRGP00@bigbear.com>
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>Ok all. I am new and teaching myself unix. that confesed what do i do next.
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>i got fbsd installed and am now at the "fbsd: {1}" prompt. (i think this is a
>prompt). so what can i do? how can i start reading the man pages? how can i
>display and navigate file directories?
man man
man ls
man cd
man mkdir
man du
man df
man mount
man ping
man telnet
man -k "subject"
etc
>is there any online help for someone as green as i am? like a BASIC intro man
>page or something?
FreeBSD is similar to 4.4BSD especially in terms of doing userland types of
things. I would pop over to a bookstore and pick up a book on UNIX (4.4BSD
UNIX if you can find one), and go from there.
--
Justin T. Gibbs
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Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM
FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations
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