From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 2:41:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from amukta.gci.net (amukta.gci.net [208.138.130.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD13F15533 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 02:41:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from irisinc@gci.net) Received: from gci.net ([209.165.129.161]) by amukta.gci.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.04 Jul 21 1999 18:33:18) with ESMTP id FH4AUJ00.P64 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 01:39:55 -0800 Message-ID: <37C65D04.2D8443C5@gci.net> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 01:40:20 -0800 From: Rusty X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.7 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Elementary documentation Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi! I'm teaching my eleven (11) year old son how to use Freebsd. I have a 400 MgH box and his is 330 MgH machine. I recently built a 300 MgH box to use as a gateway and a router. I have a 40 mg SuSE 6.1 hack that will do service as a firewall and router. My question is; where may I find documentation that is simple enough for an above average 11 year old to understand? An example: Tonight we were compiling some games (what else?) that he had downloaded and he inquired about the meaning of the arguments following the commands "gunzip" and "tar". He wanted to know what each stood for. I'm not about to reefer an eleven year old to a man page, I don't do that to anyone I like. We consulted one of the many three inch thick books on Unix I have purchased from time to time and I was able to give him the correct answer. Giving a newbie a good, informative answer is important if you want that person to be properly grounded in the discipline they are studying. Learning the basics well makes the rest of the study easy. If anyone has some recommendations as to where I may purchase documentation that will fit my requirements I will be most appreciative. Thank you, Rusty To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message