Holy smoke! That's one seriously cool book! I just downloaded it. It looks extremely comprehensive and informative. Thanks for posting. Alex M On 4/2/11, Jason White <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Now that I know about it, I know what people here are talking about. >> Unfortunately many here use shorthand with some explanations. No blame >> meant. People are busy. >> >> You can understand that when a person says change the .bashrc file and >> they >> have none they get quite confused. <grin>. > > I just looked it up in William E. Shotts Jr., The Linux Command Line: > http://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php > which is a fairly up to date, well written, introductory book that every > newcomer to Linux should read. > > ~/.bahsrc is described in table 12-2 and the accompanying text - the author > even explains that it's a hidden file, and why. It's also in the table of > contents. > > The problem is that many beginners aren't referred early on to appropriate, > quality documentation, much of which is available online. > > I'm still looking for a very good online introduction to system > administration > that I can recommend. There are great books from O'Reilly, of course, which > are accessible thanks to Bookshare - and even easier to read now that > Emacspeak has the Bookshare extension, which I really need to test at some > point soon. > > For the uninitiated, system administration is concerned with knowing how to > configure your operating system, e.g., by editing files under /etc and > running > privileged administration commands. > > I'm no doubt straying too far off-topic here, so I'll end my comments at > this > juncture. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your address on the > emacspeak list send mail to "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a > subject of "unsubscribe" or "help". > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the emacspeak list or change your address on the emacspeak list send mail to "emacspeak-request@xxxxxxxxxxx" with a subject of "unsubscribe" or "help".
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