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From: Don Tyson <tyson@stanfordalumni.org>
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[snipped]

> > Since I really can't from looking at my bookshelf, can anyone recommend
> > a book with a few good chapters on general unix concepts to get a
> > completely green user familiar and comfortable with "the way things are
> > done"?  Comming from $OTHER_OS to unix can be daunting but once you get

General UNIX stuff:  Visual Quickstart Guide [to] UNIX by Deborah &
Eric Ray

FreeBSD-specific stuff:  Greg Lehey's "Complete FreeBSD"

Best all-around mini-nutshell introduction: Anneliese
Anderson's "For People New to Both FreeBSD and UNIX, found in the doc
section of the FreeBSD website.

Don Tyson