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> I'm a newbie FreeBSD user, I've just installed the 5.5 version.
> I know this is a very silly question but I've searched the archives and any
> suggestions are welcome.

RTFM

begin with

/usr/share/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/handbook.txt (or html what 
you prefer)