From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 25 15:22: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7021714E35 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:21:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id JAA01907; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:51:35 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA38431; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:51:32 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990226095132.Q431@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:51:32 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Greg Black Cc: dicidt@africaonline.co.ci, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Difficulty to run files from SCO XENIX References: <01be5f61$27707360$LocalHost@dicidt> <19990224122759.T93492@lemis.com> <19990225104644.28528.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990225104644.28528.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au>; from Greg Black on Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 08:46:44PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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