Subject: *** New users: Where to get the Linux FAQ ***
From: [email-masked] (Matt Welsh)
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 04:20:49 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.announce

NEW USERS: WHERE TO GET THE LINUX FAQ (please read)

PLEASE: EVERYONE read the FAQ for this group before posting questions. Many 
people (myself included) worked hard to produce the FAQ to accurately answer 
all of your questions. The new version of the FAQ (with many updates, 
clarifications, etc.) will only come out every month! So you won't see it 
posted that often. In the meantime you'll have to get it in one of the
following ways:

1)  ftp to tsx-11.mit.edu. It's the directory /pub/linux/docs/FAQ. 
    It's split up into 5 files: the table of contents and the four parts of
    the FAQ itself. Each part is about 50K.

or  ftp to sunsite.unc.edu. It's the file /pub/Linux/docs/FAQ. This is one
    big ASCII file containing the entire FAQ (about 200K).

or  ftp to any news.answers archive site. For example, you can find 
    Linux-related postings from news.answers in the directory
    /usenet/comp.os.linux and /usenet/comp.os.linux.announce on ftp.uu.net.

2)  If you don't have FTP access, you can retrieve it via the mailserver at
    pit-manager.mit.edu. Send mail to [email-masked] with the
    word "help" in the body.
or  If you simply can't find the FAQ, I will mail it to you myself. Just
    send me mail ([email-masked]).

3)  The most recent FAQ will be posted to comp.os.linux, comp.os.linux.announce,
    and news.answers every month (if you want to wait...).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Read the "Meta-FAQ" posted weekly to c.o.l.a (also
available from the various FTP sites). It gives you all of the pointers on 
where to look for Linux information.

Thanks.

mdw

-- 
Matt Welsh, [email-masked] 
  "What are you doing, Dave?"