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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
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