From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Sep 21 3:55: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from enterprise.powerup.com.au (enterprise.powerup.com.au [203.32.8.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B5CE151ED for ; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 03:54:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wyldephyre@telebot.net) Received: (qmail 23886 invoked from network); 21 Sep 1999 10:54:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO demuire) (203.147.249.77) by enterprise.powerup.com.au with SMTP; 21 Sep 1999 10:54:53 -0000 Message-ID: <002001bf0421$916af140$4df993cb@demuire> Reply-To: "Haikal Saadh" From: "Haikal Saadh" To: "David Wolfskill" Cc: References: <199909201457.HAA27519@pau-amma.whistle.com> Subject: Re: Which software? Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 05:12:20 +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 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org *snip* > Well, I certainly haven't had reason to use mtools sine '94, and have no > expectation of needing them again. I expect it's because you either don't use floppies (which is a good thing, I'd say), or have an alternative means to accessing them..in which case could you tell me what it is? > Nearly the same story with bash -- never used it; don't see a need to. > (Have seen it misbehave for others, which is additional disincentive to > bother.) Have heard a number of people comment on this, but no one mentions a reason..could you shed some light on this? Is there another shell that would be more intuitive to the uninitiated newbie? I've tried sh (<-naturally...figuring out how to make bash my login shell was one of my many trials.), and csh, which I found very, very user-unfriendly. > Use X, yes; also gcc, but both of these are selectable from the FreeBSD > distribution. Once you have that (and gzip), you should be able to get > just about anything available in source form, compile, & install it. Noted. > Not quite sure why you seem to have wanted private replies only; this > would have seemed an appropriate topic for group discussion. (Ref. the > "Reply-To:" header quoted above.) MMmmm...newbie mistake :) Thanks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message