From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 12 18:34:28 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA09423 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 18:34:28 -0800 Received: from kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br (kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br [143.106.13.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA09417 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 18:34:21 -0800 Received: (from vazquez@localhost) by kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br (8.6.9/8.6.9) id XAA04306 for questions@FreeBSD.org; Sun, 12 Feb 1995 23:29:40 -0300 From: Pedro A M Vazquez Message-Id: <199502130229.XAA04306@kalypso.iqm.unicamp.br> Subject: Re: Help! To: questions@FreeBSD.org Date: Sun, 12 Feb 1995 23:29:36 -0300 (EST) In-Reply-To: from "billlee@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca" at Feb 12, 95 05:13:44 pm Organization: Instituto de Quimica Unicamp X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1634 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello While it can't substitute a good book on Unix the "Unix Help for Users" available on http://www.ucs.ed.ac.uk/Unixhelp/get_source.html can help you to start using unix. Look at it using mosaic, netscape or lynx and move it to your local machine for a future reading. I've apended the index below. Regards Pedro ======================================================================== Welcome to UNIXhelp for Users An experimental service designed to provide helpful information to new users of the UNIX operating system, developed from work funded by the ITTI. Details of how to get the HTML source files for this product are here. Manual Index Glossary of Terms Searchable Index Tasks Getting started Working with files and directories Managing your working environment Controlling access to your files and directories Sending and receiving electronic mail Editing text files Managing jobs and processes Writing shell scripts Commands Using UNIX commands Looking-up commands in the on-line manual Alphabetical list of the most popular commands Links to different manufacturers manual pages UNIX commands for VMS users UNIX commands for DOS users Concepts What is an operating system? The UNIX file system Understanding commands and processes The shell Utilities Program development tools Text editors File manipulation utilties File transfer utilities UNIX shells Perl Programming Language John Smith