Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:51:32 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> Cc: dicidt@africaonline.co.ci, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Difficulty to run files from SCO XENIX Message-ID: <19990226095132.Q431@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990225104644.28528.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>; from Greg Black on Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 08:46:44PM %2B1000 References: <01be5f61$27707360$LocalHost@dicidt> <19990224122759.T93492@lemis.com> <19990225104644.28528.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>
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On Thursday, 25 February 1999 at 20:46:44 +1000, Greg Black wrote: >>> A quick answer may offer a choice of new UNIX OS. How can I improve >>> my future knowledge using FreeBSD without hacking on the web ? >> >> Read the online handbook, read the messages that go by on this mailing >> list, or buy my book "The Complete FreeBSD", second edition >> (http://www.cdrom.com/titles/os/bsdbook2.htm). > > These are, of course, good suggestions. There's one more > resource that everybody should constantly refer to and that is > the man pages -- they deserve to be read, not just when you want > to solve some immediate problem, but as a resource filled with > valuable information. Whether you're a newbie to Unix or to > this flavour of Unix, or whether you're an old hand, there are > always things to learn from browsing the man pages; and we all > do ourselves a grave disservice if we forget this. To be fair, I don't think the man pages would have helped much in this case: $ apropos xenix xenix: nothing appropriate $ Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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