Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 22:42:31 +1000 From: Greg Black <gjb@comkey.com.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: dicidt@africaonline.co.ci, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Difficulty to run files from SCO XENIX Message-ID: <19990226124231.6290.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> In-Reply-To: <19990226095132.Q431@lemis.com> of Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:51:32 %2B1030 References: <01be5f61$27707360$LocalHost@dicidt> <19990224122759.T93492@lemis.com> <19990225104644.28528.qmail@alpha.comkey.com.au> <19990226095132.Q431@lemis.com>
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> >>> 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 <gjb@acm.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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