From owner-freebsd-newbies Thu Dec 23 3:16:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from goblin.apana.org.au (goblin.apana.org.au [203.3.126.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069E514D34 for ; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 03:16:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by goblin.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA19594; Thu, 23 Dec 1999 22:09:40 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle.apana.org.au(203.3.126.130), claiming to be "ORACLE" via SMTP by goblin.apana.org.au, id smtpdq19592; Thu Dec 23 22:09:28 1999 Message-ID: <00dd01bf4d37$4c351330$827e03cb@ORACLE> From: "Doug Young" To: Cc: References: <015701bf4c2e$6dc58110$827e03cb@ORACLE> <19991223112607.B8547@hades.hell.gr> Subject: Re: Experiences Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 21:17:25 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I guess a heap of people would welcome a translation into ANY earthly language :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Giorgos Keramidas" To: "Doug Young" Cc: Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 7:26 PM Subject: Re: Experiences > 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