From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 29 2:14:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from richardson.apana.org.au (richardson.apana.org.au [203.3.126.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4608D156F0 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 02:11:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from young@richardson.apana.org.au) Received: from jdy [203.3.126.129] by richardson.apana.org.au [203.3.126.216] with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP4.T) for ; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 19:03:57 +1000 Message-ID: <014c01bef1fe$0369b8c0$857e03cb@jdy> From: "Young" To: "Doug" Cc: Subject: Re: adopt a newbie program - Thanks Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 19:08:07 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Return-Path: young@richardson.apana.org.au Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > What you say is absolutely true. Experienced users who worked hard to >obtain a basic facility with unix have an expectation that someone who >wants to learn the system will put a little effort into learning it >themselves. The problem is that there isn't any one place to start. Every >bit of knowledge assumes some other bits of knowledge, and there really >aren't any alternatives to just slogging through it till it starts making >sense. Well there certainly haven't been any alternatives so far .... but I'm hoping there are enough newbies out there who are prepared to form a group dedicated to producing some really explicit & newbie-friendly docs for stuff that causes so much grief .... I mean the likes of really basic commands (including the switches that are needed commonly rather than those that just take up space in the MAN), ppp setup, routing, and whatever else the group deems worthy of special attention. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message