Re: Emacspeak tutorial complete

[Alex Midence <alex.midence@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.
>
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