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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!newsmaster@erols.com From: kombat@pop.erols.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Thinking of installing FreeBSD. Date: 1 Aug 1996 05:11:17 GMT Organization: Erols Internet Services Lines: 7 Message-ID: <4tpe9l$doi@news8.erols.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: anp-as1s11.erols.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22KIT (Windows; U; 16bit) I am used to DOS and Win95, I am now looking to up to the world of unix and FreeBSD. I have some questions. What is (exactly) a shell accout? I have an ISP now with SLIP/PPP will this be able to work with a shell accout. Is it hard to post your own web page and Ftp site? Where can I get this information? Is IRC an easy thing to get started. Thanks for your help , -Tom