Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 08:31:47 -0500 From: RICHARD@aaicorp.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Repost: Re: FreeBSD Basics Message-ID: <s3967991.033@aaicorp.com>
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I am reposting several messages I sent to this group because our mail server was down for a time yesterday and I never saw these messages come in with my freebsd-questions mail. > > > > I would like to know if there is a way I could find out about all the > > commands available to me, I have looked in the manual but it seems to > > go > > a bit in depth at this stage. > > . . . > > For the time being, a Unix manual would be much more pedagogic than > the on-line manual pages. I cannot tell which one exactly, there are > plenty, perhaps one of the O'Reilly Editions manuals from "Nutshell" > series. Since you have your own Unix, you will need to do some > system administration, and you may also need a manual on Unix system > administration. > Two very good books, with different organizations: 1. Unix in a Nutshell, by Gilly and the O'Reilly crowd. This book is organized as a desktop reference and gives concise command formats for unix commands, several shells languages, editors, and other stuff. 2. Unix System Adminstration Handbook, by Nemeth, Snyder, Seebass, Hein (also known as "That Red Book") A quote from the back cover - "This is not a nice, neat book for a nice, clean world. It's a nasty book for a nasty world. This is a book for the rest of us." I've found these to be invaluable in my struggles to understand just what is going on with Unix (since it's only my 5th love). Richard Dunn-Roberts richard@aaicorp.com, dunnro@aaicorp.com, richard.dunn-roberts@usa.net
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