From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Aug 31 01:47:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA13560 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 01:47:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA13555 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 01:47:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from charon@freethought.org) From: charon@freethought.org Received: from c131496-a ([24.1.100.144]) by ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with SMTP id AAA466; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 01:46:22 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980831014615.009508a0@mail> X-Sender: stygian-charon@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 01:46:15 -0700 To: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-Questions Cc: tips@egroups.com In-Reply-To: <19980831084304.F606@freebie.lemis.com> References: <35E92316.C5702532@info1.info.tampere.fi> <35E92316.C5702532@info1.info.tampere.fi> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:43 AM 8/31/98 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> And if Sue ever again want's to point me to -questions I think I'll skip >> it instantly, it's much faster to read every single manual page through >> there is to read than ask anything in -questions. > >Definitely. If you can find an answer in the man pages, don't bug >-questions. Though it could be quicker just to try every single alpha-numeric permutation possible of every character in the command line/config file than to read 10^42 man pages, most of which make little or no sense to newbies... not to be sarcastic, or anything, but... well, yes, to be sarcastic :) -charon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message