From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Dec 23 2:58:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from athserv.otenet.gr (athserv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48EAF155D9 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 02:58:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from localhost.hell.gr (patr530-a090.otenet.gr [195.167.115.90]) by athserv.otenet.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA29624 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:58:27 +0200 (EET) Received: (qmail 8954 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Dec 1999 09:26:07 -0000 Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 11:26:07 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Doug Young Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experiences Message-ID: <19991223112607.B8547@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <015701bf4c2e$6dc58110$827e03cb@ORACLE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <015701bf4c2e$6dc58110$827e03cb@ORACLE> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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" > To: "CRUZ Lito" > Cc: "'Larry Hawk'" ; > Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 12:06 PM > Subject: RE: Experiences > > > > > they can do is say "hey newbie, MAN ". 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, "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