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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!gatech!newsjunkie.ans.net!interaccess!psycfrnd!trek From: trek@psycfrnd.interaccess.com (Jack Doyle) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Q: UNIX in a nutshell? Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.questions Date: 27 Jan 1996 04:00:04 GMT Organization: InterAccess, Chicago's best Internet Service Provider Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4ec804$f18@nntp.interaccess.com> References: <aaronv-2601961712090001@isdn6-205.dnai.com> Reply-To: trek@interaccess.com NNTP-Posting-Host: psycfrnd.interaccess.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:13201 comp.unix.bsd.misc:478 comp.unix.questions:76685 Aaron Vinson (aaronv@dnai.com) wrote: : hello everybody... I consider myself to be a novice UNIX user. I can get : around well and extensive knoledge of the internet but havn't really : played around with X or administrative tools yet. I'm planning on : purchasing a PC soon and running FreeBSD. I'm wondering if anyone could : reccomend a good book that covers a good deal of UNIX i.e. Berkeley : UNIX.... relating to FreeBSD and X. As of now I'm planning on using the : olvwm window manager. Hmmmm, I guess that's it. If you have any : suggestions please email them to aaronv@dnai.com. Thanks ORA (O'Reilly & Assoc.) makes excellent books on unix-related topics. I recommend getting the 5-manual set for 4.4BSD Unix, and reading what you want and what you don't. All manuals in the set will come in handy. Don't forget to check up on the X topics, either. Jack