From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 27 12:45:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9FA9C15529 for ; Fri, 27 Aug 1999 12:45:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 63750 invoked from network); 27 Aug 1999 19:42:28 -0000 Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.40) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 27 Aug 1999 19:42:28 -0000 Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:42:28 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Rusty Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Elementary documentation In-Reply-To: <37C65D04.2D8443C5@gci.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Rusty wrote: > My question is; where may I find documentation that is simple enough for > an above average 11 year old to understand? An example: Tonight we The man pages. For something like named(8) or senmail(8) they aren't very good, but for figuring out how to use something, or what its arguments are, they are wonderful. They are concise, well-written (mostly...) and tell you what you need to know. Figure out how to use man(1), and you can work out most problems. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message