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- From: tdh6t@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Todd #$%!@! Hodes)
- Subject: Re: I really don't know what UNIX is!!!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.071130.15718@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU
- Organization: University of Virginia
- References: <1992Dec2.195450.1288@Virginia.EDU> <1992Dec14.175209.27229@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:11:30 GMT
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- >In article <1992Dec2.195450.1288@Virginia.EDU> rkw2g@Virginia.EDU (Robert Kenneth Wright, III) writes:
- >>I am a Computer Science major (2nd year) at UVA. My only
- >>programming experience is with BASIC, Pascal, and DOS. I feel
- >>I am SOOOOOOOO behind with the new technology! Please help an
- >>information-hungry, ready-to-learn, EXTREMELY novice hacker
- >>understand just what UNIX is.
-
- I never saw the original message, so I'll reply to this one...
- I'm mailing this to rkw in addition to posting.
- Very sorry for cluttering the Newsgroup.
-
- Firstly, I am a CS major at UVa also (3rd yr) and I, unlike poor
- Rob, am NOT clueless... please don't think that UVa CS is so
- backward that we don't know Unix & C like the back of our hand.
- (Yes, even as 2nd years)
-
- (Sorry to be cruel, Rob, just PR, ya know.)
-
- Now, to help you out a bit:
-
- 1) Get a unix account... you're posting from a bloody PC.
- You need access to what you want to learn about. You'll learn
- C soon enough, so I won't rush you on that.
-
- 2) Sit for hundreds of hours in front of it, reading manpage
- after manpage and FAQ after FAQ, finally figuring out how to put
- together the naughty pictures in alt.binaries.pictures, ftp games from
- the various ftp sites, post and mail anonymously, and get your .twmrc
- or .mwmrc file set up JUST RIGHT! (The important things :)
-
- Finally, 3) Ask LOCALLY for help... comp.unix.questions
- is definitely NOT the place to put such a post. Try:
-
- news.newusers.questions
- uva.cs.general
-
- with the latter prefered. No one outside UVa can give explicit help.
-
- Send me mail (tdh6t@virginia.edu) for info on how to
- get your own unix account, etc., or post to uva.cs.general. I read
- it. You'll get replies.
-
- Again, Sorry to the thousands of c.u.q subscribers who had to pay to get
- this message.
-
- T.
- --
- Louder Tunes == Better Code
-
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