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From: arnulf@inf.fu-berlin.de (Arnulf Guenther)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Dear programmers of FreeBSD
Date: 27 Sep 1995 11:12:05 GMT
Organization: Informatik, Freie Universitaet Berlin
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In-reply-to: hartley@magicnet.net's message of 27 Sep 1995 02:09:23 GMT
>>>>> "David" == David Hartley <hartley@magicnet.net> writes:
David> In article <449jbm$lft@buffnet2.buffnet.net>,
David> root@buffnet.net (Superuser) says:
>>
>>
>> To those of you who actually write and maintain parts of
>> FreeBSD I just want to very loudly say:
>>
>> YOU ARE GENIUSES!
>>
>> VERITIBLE DEITIES IN THE FLESH!
>>
>> Ahem... Iv gotten a grip now... Thank you.
>>
>> :)
>>
>>
David> I second that
Me, too. I'm also very pleased with the Package installation and
administration tools.
Daviv>, Only where's the M A N U A L ?? <grin>
First, there's the dir /usr/share/FAQ with various documents for the
beginners in simple text form and also HTML versions.
Then there are the online manuals. Simply type man 8 mount to find
about the mount command in the administration section (8) in the
manual. Section 1 is user commands, 2 system calls, 3, libray calls,
4 devices, 5 file formats, 6 games B) and 7 misc.
If you have net connectivity: Try
<URL:http://www.freebsd.org/How/handbook/>
For the technical inclined is
The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD Operating System
by McKusick, Quaterman et al. Addison Wesley '85 if I remember it
correctly (also known as the source of the BSDaemon B))
David> Good stuff, just a bit confusing for us newbies.....
Well, I've ``grown up'' with SUNOS 3.5. So it was vaguely familiar to
me.
David> Dave
my pleasure, -Arnulf