Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 12:48:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Viktor Lazlo <viktorlazlo@telus.net> To: Libby Charles-CCL044 <Charles.S.Libby@motorola.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: hi Message-ID: <20020711124608.A7479-100000@njam.dhs.org> In-Reply-To: <AD31C7ED267AD411B55500D0B781E33D065CC96B@il33exm02.wes.mot.com>
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On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Libby Charles-CCL044 wrote: > This is the hardest part of being a new person in UNIX. Knowing the > command I need to use. Mark, thanks for giving the reference to the man > page. It answered a question, and sent them to the place in the > documentation where I could find out the details. I have struggled with > may of the responses here because they would slam the new guy, but would > never refer them to a specific piece of documentation. This is the way > we need to help the new guys. I may be flamed for this but as a > teacher, this is the best way to help the student learn. Also, the > wonderful world of UNIX can be so complex it overwhelms someone > switching to UNIX form M$. Thanks again Mark. The quickest way of tracking down the right command is "apropos whatever", if it gives you too many references use a different keyword or filter the output: apropos remove apropos remove | grep user Cheers, Viktor To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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