Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:48:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Viljo Hakala <vipe@terafox.fi> Cc: Anders <gollum@rdc.cl>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First Commands Message-ID: <19981005224849.Q27781@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981005133118.5157C-100000@fire.dreams.eu.org>; from Viljo Hakala on Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 01:39:22PM %2B0300 References: <19981005112935.P2545@freebie.lemis.com> <Pine.LNX.3.96.981005133118.5157C-100000@fire.dreams.eu.org>
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On Monday, 5 October 1998 at 13:39:22 +0300, Viljo Hakala wrote: >>> Haha, I've been using FreeBSD for a month now and I still havent used all >>> of those commands :-). >> >> I've been using UNIX for 12 years now, and I still haven't used all >> the commands. Isn't it nice to have a system that you don't grow out >> of? > > That's sad from one point of a view. I don't see it. Care to explain? > You possibly can't grow out of OS variants such as unixes, because of the > environment it provides. Efficient, maybe free, and an excellent > platform for software develepment. Agreed. > I live with UNIX, and have been using such for 4 years and yet, I used all > of the commands and more provided the system and packets in a period of > one week. Interesting. What did you do with them? Check out these man pages (section 1, commands). They're not all of them, just the ones that don't immediately ring a bell with me: addftinfo bdes btreeop c2ph checknr cjpeg ckdist colldef compile_et crunchide ctm_dequeue ctm_rmail ctm_smail dbg djpeg file2c gcore genclass getNAME grolj4 h2ph h2xs htpasswd.1 idprio (sorry, I got bored round i). The point is, UNIX is a language. Like in English, you don't need to understand all the words until you find yourself in a situation which requires them. I do think I have a reasonable understanding of UNIX, but I don't pretend to understand everything. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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