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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!noc.netcom.net!netcomsv!uu3news.netcom.com!netcomsv!uucp3.netcom.com!symiserver.symantec.com!news.central.com!news From: tedmtoybox@agora.rdrop.com Subject: Re: Newcomer needs a focus to Learn X-Newsreader: IBM RN 3.8d (OS/2 2.0) bugfixed by mittelst@fh-ulm.de Sender: news@news.central.com (Usenet Netnews) Organization: Peter Norton Group, Symantec Corp. Beaverton Message-ID: <DCBAor.18p@news.central.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 06:07:17 GMT Lines: 21 In <mace.2.003C4F13@vortex.ultranet.com> mace@vortex.ultranet.com (AM) writes: | I,m having no hardware problems or installation problems,I learned Windows and | used it to learn MS Dos in reverse I can be methodical and take good notes. | What would be a good book to get a grip on the basics? Should I use my file | manager to print out the complete file tree. I,ve gotten to the point where | FreeBSD ask,s me to login with password and then say,s hello with it,s clever | phrase of the day.....is there a way to get an overview a way to look at it as | a whole beore I decide how much detail to torture myself with per day.I,m new | to computers but want to learn this system to understand what makes them | tick..Pointers Please. Thank You Art. Go to your local community college and buy whatever textbook they are selling in their bookstore for their "introduction to Unix" course. Once you read through that the Nutshell series of handbooks are excellent references. They are published by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. I think they even have an Intro to Unix book out now, but I wouldn't trouble espically to get it, all the Intro to Unix books I've read are pretty much the same. If you don't want to spend the money, and you want to do it the hard way, then list out /bin /usr/bin /sbin /usr/sbin and do a "man filename" on each of the programs.