From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 10: 7:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 874AA37B419 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:07:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:07:10 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16EDlr-0004Ew-00; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:06:19 +0000 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 18:06:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: Ceri Cc: Joe & Fhe Barbish , FBSD Questions Subject: Re: /etc/hosts file ? FBSD doc suck In-Reply-To: <20011212175225.A14728@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Ceri wrote: > Could you specify _exactly_ which part of the manpage you didn't understand? Now, now. Man pages _are_ generally written from a reference point of view, not a tutorial or background (although there are some excellent overviews taking shape under section 7). There seem to be three rough categories of information that people might require here: - installation and kickoff with freebsd (probably expecting some unix knowledge) - basic "unix for dummies" kind of introductions - reference material The handbook tends to be a "how to perform task X on freebsd" - however, there are plenty of the books in the second category and I don't think (personally) that the handbook should aim to fill that niche; maybe some pointers to decent reference/tutorials for newcomers to unix. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk There's no convincing English-language argument that this sentence is true. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message