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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!bcm.tmc.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nwnews.wa.com!nwfocus.wa.com!camco!camco1.celestial.com!ray 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.... Followup-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.admi Date: 16 May 1996 16:10:41 GMT Organization: Celestial Software Lines: 58 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4nfk21$phb@camco.celestial.com> References: <ABr4Acn0Y8@eves.freenet.kiev.ua> NNTP-Posting-Host: camco1.celestial.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.questions:81881 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:19503 comp.unix.advocacy:20498 comp.unix.admin:42024 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 -- INTERNET: ray@Celestial.COM Ray A. Jones; Celestial Systems, Inc. URL: http://www.celestial.com One Mercer Plaza, Suite S100 Mercer Island, WA 98040; (206) 236-1676 Manufacturer of InterRack (Internet-in-a-Rack), a full turn-key system, including all the hardware, software, installation, setup, training and support for businesses and Internet Service Providers