On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 03:18:09PM -0700, scott mcclellan wrote: > > I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm > going through a midlife crisis). > > Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate > back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past for me 30 years - > on a TRS-80). I know remember extremely little of OS vernacular. > > Am I biting off more than I can chew, or is there a OS commands for > dummies out there, or does FreeBSD have such a critter that one can > go through. > > I'll pour through the FAQ and got hrough the online manuals for now. > But it all seems greek. Can someone point me in a diresction to > degreek this stuff for me. > > Thanks, > > Scott McClellan
I'll give you one tip for free: keep your line length to less than 80 chars when posting to a unix list, say 74. As for where to start, I'd probably start by buying a book or two. "Unix in a Nutshell" pub. O'Reilly comes to mind. That should familiarise yourself with most of the common commands. If you decide to use FreeBSD then the freely available Handbook is a must read: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Any questions that can't be answered by Googling, then post here. Welcome to FreeBSD! Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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