From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Oct 5 06:19:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA04144 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 06:19:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA04138 for ; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 06:19:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id WAA18446; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:48:55 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id WAA28884; Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:48:49 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981005224849.Q27781@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:48:49 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Viljo Hakala Cc: Anders , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First Commands References: <19981005112935.P2545@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Viljo Hakala on Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 01:39:22PM +0300 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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