From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Oct 6 00:02:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA19247 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 00:02:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns2.x-link.ml.org (ns2.x-link.ml.org [163.195.1.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA19157 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 00:02:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from croftonc@PARACHUTE.WCAPE.GOV.ZA) Received: from wcpes.x-link.ml.org (wcpes.x-link.ml.org [163.195.20.11]) by ns2.x-link.ml.org (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA12153 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:03:01 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from croftonc@PARACHUTE.WCAPE.GOV.ZA) Received: from PARACHUTE.WCAPE.GOV.ZA (ccswc-ops.wcape.gov.za [164.151.102.250]) by wcpes.x-link.ml.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA03450 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 09:00:31 +0200 (SAT) Message-Id: <199810060700.JAA03450@wcpes.x-link.ml.org> Received: from PARACHUTE/SpoolDir by PARACHUTE.WCAPE.GOV.ZA (Mercury 1.21); 6 Oct 98 08:51:04 +0200 Received: from SpoolDir by PARACHUTE (Mercury 1.21); 6 Oct 98 08:47:21 +0200 From: "CHARL" Organization: CCS WESTERN CAPE To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 08:47:16 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: First Documentation X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.01b) Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Wow...... What a great reply of commands. Thanks all for your input and to Sue a great big thank you for the help that you've been giving.I am looking forward to your new project fo rnewbies. I am currently busy with all these new stuff now, trying the commands and trying to understand them.So hold thumbs people. Just one question : Someone mentioned to me that I must use 'screen' for multitasking <----- is this the same as the vitual console or am I missing something here? Thanks again Cheers CHARL CROFTON Central Computer Services - Govnet Western Cape South Africa Mail: croftonc@parachute.wcape.gov.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message