From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon May 29 10:38:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from odin.acuson.com (odin.acuson.com [157.226.230.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1EB537BCF3 for ; Mon, 29 May 2000 10:38:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djohnson@acuson.com) Received: from acuson.com ([157.226.69.156]) by odin.acuson.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.54) with ESMTP id AAA3C78; Mon, 29 May 2000 10:39:55 -0700 Message-ID: <3932AB42.3A9E984F@acuson.com> Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 10:39:14 -0700 From: David Johnson Organization: Acuson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.13 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Haikal Saadh Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: any good books? References: <000501bfc8f2$e3ea30c0$cedda4d8@leegold1> <009601bfc97c$1732dc00$95a093cb@timberwolf> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Haikal Saadh wrote: > > Heh, at least on Unix you have the man pages which you can try to squint at > and make sense of, as opposed to windows where the only help you ever get is > a dialogue box saying ask your administrator... Or even better, those Linuxen that insist on using the GNU man pages instead of writing their own. To quote from one in particular "This man page is not kept up to date except when volunteers want to maintain it... If we find that the things in this man page that are out of date cause significant confusion or complaints, we will stop distributing the man page." -- David Johnson... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message