Newbies Corner
by The FreeBSDzine Crew <[email protected]>
Welcome to the first installment of the Newbies Corner column. Here
we will attempt to address the needs of all of those users out
there who are new to FreeBSD. However, even the veteran FreeBSD junkie
may find some useful bits of information that he/she was unaware
of. FreeBSD is made up of so many different programs and utilities, so
it is highly unlikely that any given person will know about every
single one.
Due to time constraints, this column is looking rather barren this
time around. With a bit of luck, and maybe a few suggestions from our
readers out there, next month will be able to bring you a column which
is full of FreeBSD related everything
If you have a question or tip that you would like to have
considered for inclusion in the column please email us at [email protected].
Fragments, Tips and Facts
Does your FreeBSD box have a Ethernet card? If so, then consider
placing a small MS-DOS partition, during installation, at the very
front of the drive. This will allow you to install a very minimal
version of MS-DOS, along with the utilities that allow you to
configure the various functions of your Ethernet card. This is
particularly useful if you have an ISA Ethernet card.
Need a good way to interact with your FreeBSD server from a Windows
machine? Tera Term is a good choice with the "all important" ssh
support:
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002416/teraterm.html
http://www.zip.com.au/~roca/ttssh.html
According to the BAFUG FreeBSD
Counter Page, there are 45985 FreeBSD users out there.
Q & A Speak
Question
How can I strip HTML tags out of a HTML file?
Answer
Using lynx is the easiest way to do this..
lynx -dump http://www.blah.com/blah.html > blah.txt
Be sure to replace the URL and text file with actual ones :-)
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