From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 26 12:21: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.comkey.com.au (alpha.comkey.com.au [203.9.152.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54A2614FEB for ; Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:18:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gjb@comkey.com.au) Received: (qmail 6291 invoked by uid 1001); 26 Feb 1999 12:42:31 -0000 Message-ID: <19990226124231.6290.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> X-Posted-By: GBA-Post 1.04 06-Feb-1999 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5A91 6942 8CEA 9DAB B95B C249 1CE1 493B 2B5A CE30 Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 22:42:31 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Greg Lehey 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> <19990226095132.Q431@lemis.com> In-reply-to: <19990226095132.Q431@lemis.com> of Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:51:32 +1030 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >>> 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 To be completely fair, please note that I said nothing about Xenix. I was careful to quote the question I was answering and it's still there at the top of this message: "How can I improve my future knowledge using FreeBSD?" The man pages are indeed a splendid resource for that task. -- Greg Black To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message