Subject: Re: A Newbie Question... Sorry.
From: Benjamin Lowengard (ben@tiac.net)
Date: Thu Aug 26 1999 - 12:23:37 MDT
Daniel J. Costello says:
>
> Can anyone suggest a good
>book, or a course of action to help me learn the basics of linux so that
>when I read most of the posts to this group, I would know what you are
>talking about? I would enjoy nothing more. Thank you for your time.
>
>
Dan Burcaw recommended Running Linux to me, and there's a brand new
version out.
(o'Reilly will upgrade anold version for a price, as well) It is
pretty good, though I wish I could get something that helps me out a
little more syntacticly (?). Something like figuring out the
network/ypbind/dhcp/*conf and other "try it out and see if it works"
has been still unixy difficult
for me (and I'm not completely a unix newbie either). Esp. since many
folks come from the Mac world
I would like to find some better way of interpereting man pages
etc..they can be rather
terse. For instance, I have varied success with tar. I'll get afile
like smurf.tar.gz and I can
unzip it and extract it appropriately, but at times it doesn't take.
It may take a few tries
to get it to work. I know this isn't normal, yet I can't figure out
what's going on even with
accurate following of readme's or man pages.
Discussion and pointers?
Regards
benj
benjamin lowengard*ben@tiac.net*ben@mediaone.net
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