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From: ray@camco1.celestial.com (Ray A. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: I have a mass of a headache. Please help....
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Date: 16 May 1996 16:10:41 GMT
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Sergey N. Bezshapkin (sergey@eves.freenet.kiev.ua) wrote:
: I've just set up FreeBSD on my 486 PC (before I'd been using MSDOS)
: and obtained a mass of a headache.:~-(
: Who can explain my stupid question:
History lesson: Microsoft has been in the Unix market longer that the DOS
market (with Xenix). Therefore, everything that was added to DOS since DOS
1.0 has come straight out of Unix.
: -What is a 'File system' from the UNIX' point of view;
Just think of the directroy tree structure you see in DOS. The "file
system" is the same in Unix and DOS. (down in the gut level they are quite
different, but at the user level they look almost alike.)
: -How can I explore it in my computer like MSDOS user
DOS used the / as an option switch (as in dir /w ), Unix uses the - (as in
ls -l). Becuase DOS used the / as a switch, they couldnt use the same
character as directory seperators like Unix does, so they had to use the \
Therefore DOS uses
cd \dir1\dir2\dir3
whereas Unix uses
cd /dir1/dir2/dir3
These commands are the same in DOS and Unix
cd
mkdir
rmdir
DOS Unix
--- ----
type cat
find grep
dir ls -l
dir /w ls -C
cd with no argument in DOS prints the current location, use "pwd" to do this
in Unix. cd with no argument in Unix, takes you back to your "home"
directory or you starting place in the system.
: -Where can I get regular information about UNIX.
man man
gives you the manual page on the manual page program, a good starting point.
That shuould be enought to get you started.
: My greatest thanks to all who can help.
: sergey@eves.freenet.kiev.ua
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