From owner-freebsd-newbies Fri Jan 8 06:37:53 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA01517 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 06:37:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from loviatar.webcom.com (loviatar.webcom.com [209.1.28.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA01509 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 06:37:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graeme@echidna.com) Received: from kigal.webcom.com (kigal.webcom.com [209.1.28.57]) by loviatar.webcom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id GAA12954; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 06:37:06 -0800 Received: from [204.143.69.51] by inanna.webcom.com (WebCom SMTP 1.2.1) with SMTP id 16238095; Fri Jan 08 06:35 PST 1999 Message-Id: <3696183A.1FD5@echidna.com> Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1999 09:37:46 -0500 From: Graeme Tait Organization: Echidna X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win95; I) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Malartre Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The FreeBSD User Guide References: <36958774.8135CE68@aei.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Malartre wrote: > > The FreeBSD User Guide (that name may change..) > http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/freebsd/ > > "This is a kind of Q&A/tutorial on the basics of the FreeBSD Operating > System (OS), a UNIX variant. It's made for people who never used a UNIX > OS." I like it! (But don't have time for a detailed look just now.) One specific comment - you suggest "cat" for printing files to the screen, as does at least one Unix book I have. I started off using "cat" as a raw beginner as that was what I was "told". Then someone was roasted on this list for using "cat" for this purpose, and ever since I've used the suggested "more" or "less". It was not explained in detail why "cat" was inappropriate, although one issue seemed to be with listing files with arbitrary content. Certainly "cat filename | more" is redundant: "more filename" is sufficient. -- Graeme Tait - Echidna To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message