From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 23 20:43:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA06533 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 20:43:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from tok.qiv.com (root@[204.214.141.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA06527 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 20:43:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by tok.qiv.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with UUCP id WAA16756; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 22:30:32 -0600 Received: from localhost (jdn@localhost) by acp.qiv.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA00800; Thu, 23 Jan 1997 22:23:46 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: acp.qiv.com: jdn owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 23 Jan 1997 22:23:46 -0600 (CST) From: "Jay D. Nelson" To: Chris Lopez cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: capabilties In-Reply-To: <32E814AD.4C12@avst.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Chris Lopez wrote: ->Hi asked recently about your product, and I was wondering if by my ->current situation you could determine if FreeBSD was the best for me. ->Again I am not a UNIX hacker so bear with me... -> -> I am a student at George Mason Univ. and I am taking a C++ class. I ->need to be able to: -> -> 1. Have a system (FreeBSD?) that could possibly connect with an ->UNIX system called OSF1 (they say it runs a version called ->Berkley?) Any of the free Unices can do that. Even MS-DOS with TCPIP software. You might be better off using what your friends use. The Delorian gcc (djgcc, I think) is available for MS-DOS, if that's your only alternative. -> 2. The system needs to have an application (I think they call it ->VI) where I can create, edit and compile C++ programs. Any text editor works -- I like emacs. (Vi and emacs are available for most platforms.) -> 3. If I can connect to the school UNIX system is it through ->dialup using my ISP? (Erols by the way) -> Sure -- but your school probably provides free access. Check with administratin or your cs center. -> My class just recently started and I am getting desperate here. PLEASE ->HELP ME!!! -> Unix is not load and go. Be prepared to invest some effort learning. Good luck. -- Jay -> Thank you for your time, -> Chris Lopez ->