Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:26:07 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hades.hell.gr> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experiences Message-ID: <19991223112607.B8547@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <015701bf4c2e$6dc58110$827e03cb@ORACLE> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9912211903510.247-100000@mlduke.concentric.net> <015701bf4c2e$6dc58110$827e03cb@ORACLE>
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On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 01:41:26PM +1000, Doug Young wrote: > > Whats this "greek" stuff ..... all this time I thought it was from some > forgotten planet !!!!! It's from planet Greece where I come from :P There manual pages used to be written in this arcane and really ole' language, called greek, until someone enlightened enough told everyone that good ol' rhyme about translations: "Translations are in many ways exactly like women; one that is faithful is not beautiful, and one that is beautiful is not faithful." With my best wishes for a Merry Christmas to the translation project, which Im thinking of joining once I get my BSD to write in this arcane language o' mine, called "greek". > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mlduke" <mlduke@concentric.net> > To: "CRUZ Lito" <lito.cruz@tenix.com> > Cc: "'Larry Hawk'" <tymbrwlf@bellsouth.net>; <newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> > Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 12:06 PM > Subject: RE: Experiences > > > > > they can do is say "hey newbie, MAN <whatever>". It's almost like the > > > automatic assumption is that I DON'T try to figure something out on my > own > > > before I ask. > > > > I have found that "I read 'man x' and it's still Greek" to work > > effectively, as well as things like "baffeled by the handbook". > > They have all BTDT. > > > > Duke -- Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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