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Date:      Tue, 23 Nov 1999 13:29:39 -0500
From:      Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com>
To:        'Ariel Burbaickij' <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: General thoughts and questions on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105DAC@site2s1>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ariel Burbaickij [SMTP:Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de]
> Sent:	Tuesday, November 23, 1999 2:51 AM
> To:	Giorgos Keramidas
> Cc:	freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject:	Re: General thoughts and questions on FreeBSD
> 
> On 23 Nov 1999, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> 
> > Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> writes:
> > 
> > > [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html]
> > 
> > Thank you Greg.
> > 
> > > On Friday, 19 November 1999 at 18:28:43 -0500, Jonathon McKitrick
> wrote:
> > > > A 'hacker' friend of mine...
> > [snip]
> > > 
> > > > The docs seem more sparse for BSD --no NAG, so LPG, no SAG-- but
> > > > maybe I just never poked around enough.
> > > 
> > > Well, I suppose we don't have them.  At any rate, I don't know what
> > > these TLAs mean.  But then, it's not Linux.
> > 
> > Just the proper time for an old Linux convert to clarify things a bit.
> > 
> > NAG is the ``network administrator's guide'' and the information it
> > contains can be applied, apart from linux that is, to several other unix
> 
> > and unix-like systems.
> > 
> > LPG is the ``linux programmer's guide,'' with documentation on
> > application program building, which with the usual minor exception of a
> > very linux-specific thing, applies to *BSD like a charm too.
> > 
> > SAG is the ``system administrator's guide.''  A document that described
> > common tasks a sys-admin will have to go through.  Useful stuff, and
> > lots of it are handy for *BSD as well.
> > 
> > Now, the funny part is that *BSD actually comes with a similar, probably
> 
> > not as up to date, but altogether extremely useful set of similar texts 
> > too.  They are located in /usr/share/doc/{smm,psd,usd} and I have to
> > admit I had copied all of them on every Linux installation I ever made,
> > before I got the real thing ;)
>   Well the same question as posed by I guess Mr Lehey:
>   What do this 3-letter abbreviation stand for?
>   Best Regards,
>   Ariel
>  
	What 3 letter abbreviation?  Giorgos just explained what all of the
acronyms in the original e-mail stand for.  Which one are you confused
about?

	You really do need to be more specific with your questions.  ;)

> > Since they are right there, waiting to be read, but they somehow failed
> > to be noticed by our friend, one can not help wondering if a proper
> > mention in the handbook or the faq would be any useful.
> > 
> > Regards.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Giorgos Keramidas, <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
> > "What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing." [Aristotle]
> 
	-Chris


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