Documentation for the newbie

Woodchuck djv at bedford.net
Sun Aug 6 19:35:33 PDT 2006


As root, change directory:     cd /usr/share/doc

Read the README file:          less README
(Done reading?  Can't exit?  Try ^D  ;-)

Change to the usd directory:   cd usd


IF YOU HAVE X running

Change to 01.begin:             cd 01.begin
Create the postscript documents: make

Then view the file "paper.ps" using ghostview under X.  Ghostview
can be added as a package from the CDROM with "pkg_add".
				ghostview paper.ps

IF NO X

Then cd to 01.begin:            cd 01.begin
Create textfile output:         make paper.txt
Then read the paper:		less paper.txt

To clean up in these directories:  make clean

These are old papers.  Brian Kernighan is an Old One, one of the
Ur-Fathers of Unix.  (Along with Dennis Ritchie, co-inventor of C.
Bow down and pay homage...)  These are the Ancient Scrolls.

Dave
-- 
Experience runs an expensive school, but fools will learn in no other.
                       -- Benjamin Franklin


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