HELP ME PLEASE!!!

Dan Bernstein brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu
Sun Nov 11 04:48:56 AEST 1990


In article <1990Nov10.162446.20443 at smsc.sony.com> dce at smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes:
> On the other hand, the they really want
> to dig in and become a competent Unix user/programmer or a systems
> developer, there's no substitute for sitting down and reading the
> manuals from cover to cover.

I disagree. Reading the man pages is like reading a book on how a bike
works. You'll never learn to ride a bike if you don't get out there and
start practicing!

A good way to become a UNIX expert is to rewrite every program on the
system. Or at least a good chunk.

---Dan



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