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From: Trev Roydhouse <trev@ibm.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Hostname for box w/ part time internet connection
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 16:57:56 +1000
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Sue Blake wrote:

> I'm in a similar situation, but I'm also hoping to connect the two
> other freebsd and linux(alpha) machines here to the one (2.2.1) that
> occasionally dials my ISP.

> My question is:
> Should I a) fiddle  b) ask here (what Q?) c) employ someone to help me
> set up my personal computer which is supposed to be for fun d) read
> the two or three books I have read but don't understand e) buy some
> more books f) enrol in some university course f) install another
> operating system ?
 
Walk, don't run, to your nearest bookseller (er Dymocks I guess) and
purchase a copy of "Networking Unix", 1995, Sams Publishing, by Salim
Douba, ISBN 0-672-30584-4. I see my copy cost $US 35, so fugure Dymocks
are gonna want $A 70 odd.

TREV.