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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!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New FreeBSD user questions Date: 1 Dec 1996 17:45:00 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <57sg6s$gcv@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bbdf68$e25f2660$653d9bce@dkeller> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E "Daniel Keller" <dkeller@psln.com> wrote: > 1: How can I connect into my internet account from FreeBSD? in Windows95 I > uses the dialup networking. /usr/sbin/ppp is probably what you're looking for. > 2: Where is a HTML reader for unix? The handbook is in HTML so I can't read > it. There's lynx in the ports, a fine text-based WWW browser. There are also graphical ones. If you use /stand/sysinstall's HTML browsing feature (in the "Configure" submenu), it tries to automatically add the lynx package for you. > 3: Where can I find information about how unix works? I am using it mainly > for educationsal purposes and would like to know more about it. There are a bunch of books, but i don't know of a good beginner's book offhand. (Never used one myself.) For FreeBSD, you can also purchase Walnut Creek's ``Installing and Running FreeBSD'' as a good starting point. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)