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Newbie response!

man ppp for internet access, you can also look at the sample files in
/etc/ppp for additional information.  

This list was gently and lovingly lifted from a discussion on
freebsd-newbies about some people have found to be helpfull commands
for newbies to learn

> cd
> pwd
> mkdir
> ls
> cp
> mv
> rm
> more
> exit
> date
> df
> more
> du
> /stand/sysinstall
> ee
> man
> locate
> find
> nethack
> ps
> kill
> top
> pkg_add
> pkg_info
> 
gcc, chown, chmod, mount/unmount, mail, finger, who, piping (|),
telnet,
ssh, at/atq/atrm, grep, xargs, whois, tar, gzip, file, sed, su/sudo,
compress/uncompress, sleep, vi, uname, ping, cat, echo, ln, rmdir,
stty,
less/zless, fsck, fdisk, ifconfig, mkfs, mkswap, reboot, shutdown,
adduser, crontab, ftp, lpr/lpq/lprm, talk, write, traceroute, make,
bc,
host, nslookup, irc, killall, skill, last, man, mesg, passwd, patch,
rlogin, uptime, job processing (for/background), time, touch, 
zip/unzip,
wall are all good for starters. 


Kernel Bob wrote:
> 
> Hello, I have just installed FreeBSD on my cpu, and I was wondering
> how to logon to the internet.  I'm not too familiar with unix yet, so
> if you could give me the commands I need to look up, I'll see if I can
> find them in man.  Thanx a bunch
> 
>                        »»»Kernel Bob«««
> ==

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