Re:FreeBSD ports save the day (Score 1)

quote from original post: a quick "cd /usr/ports/netscape-navigator-4.76 && make install clean" -- Yeah, that may make perfect sense to you, and me, and lots of other people out there, but the average windoze user just blinks at that line wondering what the heck it means. A tutorial such as "First, we're going to go to the location where those files are kept. CD stands for Change Directory. In *NIX we use a forward slash "/" instead of a backslash "\" for directory paths. Therefore "cd /usr" "cd/ports" "cd/netscape-navigator-4.76" changes us to the those directories one at a time, or "cd /usr/ports/netscape-navigator-4.76" moves us to the desired location in one fell swoop. And explaining how to search for a file if you don't know the directory? I have a hard enough time teaching some Windoze users how to use F3 to search.