From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 12: 7:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E546637B41F for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:07:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from contactdish (contactdish.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id fBCK6bx36614; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:06:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <004d01c18348$84e7eb00$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "Jan Grant" , "Ceri" Cc: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" , "FBSD Questions" References: Subject: Re: /etc/hosts file ? FBSD doc suck Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:06:38 +0100 Organization: Anthony's Home Page (development site) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I don't think a "UNIX for dummies" approach would be practical. UNIX is so geek-oriented that it is virtually impossible to approach from an administrative and operational standpoint without a fairly significant IT background. This being so, trying to document it in a way that would work for, say, secretaries or doctors would be a Herculean task. However, an approach that addresses users who are sophisticated in IT but simply not familiar with UNIX is probably practical. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Grant" To: "Ceri" Cc: "Joe & Fhe Barbish" ; "FBSD Questions" Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 19:06 Subject: Re: /etc/hosts file ? FBSD doc suck > On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Ceri wrote: > > > Could you specify _exactly_ which part of the manpage you didn't understand? > > Now, now. Man pages _are_ generally written from a reference point of > view, not a tutorial or background (although there are some excellent > overviews taking shape under section 7). > > There seem to be three rough categories of information that people might > require here: > - installation and kickoff with freebsd (probably expecting some > unix knowledge) > - basic "unix for dummies" kind of introductions > - reference material > The handbook tends to be a "how to perform task X on freebsd" - however, > there are plenty of the books in the second category and I don't think > (personally) that the handbook should aim to fill that niche; maybe some > pointers to decent reference/tutorials for newcomers to unix. > > > > -- > jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ > Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk > There's no convincing English-language argument that this sentence is true. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message