Re: "UNIX In Plain English" by Kevin Richard & Eric F. Johnson, MIS Press. (Reading List HOWTO)

[TheGolem <pnews gnv fdt net>]

Actually, I have the same book in hard cover. It is very informative as a
reference book for what does what in UNIX, but the same information is
available on the net if you search for it -- and why not buy the book? It
is only $14.95 or less and it is intellectual property. By passing it
around the author is cheated out of his commission on sales, which he
aptly deserves for writing it.

Hank
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On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Mar 2000 Paul Newman pgen com wrote:
> 
>  
> > Yes, me please - oh and please if you know the URL or could put it on the web
> > somewhere, then that would be great -
> > maybe ESR would then be able to refer to it in the Reading List HOWTO.
> 
> Thank's to all who are interested. First of all I made a small mistake on
> my part the book is indeed by the same authors and contains identical
> material, but the title is "LINUX in plain english" not "UNIX in plain
> english", sorry for the confusion but it contains the same material that
> UNIX in plain english contains, please see the books description below...
> 
> I uploaded a gzipped tar file which is about 330k and which can be
> downloaded from
> <http://netptune.spaceports.com/~kalum/Linux_In_Plain_English.tar.gz> .
> 
> Sorry I didn't upload a zip file because the zip was about 1.3 MB. If
> someone is interested in getting a zip archive I can upload it tomorrow if
> it is necessary.
> 
> For the people who mailed me asking me to mail them a copy of the book,
> I'm sorry my friends, but I can't mail all of you a 300K mail (I use a
> dialup) so if there is someone who *absolutely* needs to get it by mail
> only, please do tell me and I will try to oblige.
> 
> Here is a small description copied from the distribution....... 
> 
> Title:Linux in Plain English
> 
> Author(s):Patrick Volkerding, Kevin Reichard, Eric Foster-Johnson
> Imprint:M&T Books
> Publisher:IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.
> ISBN:1558285423
>                                                              
> Finally, here is a well-organized, essential reference for the growing
> number of LINUXr users. This book provides instant access to the LINUX
> commands and concepts that LINUX users are confronted with every day. The
> first section contains a listing of common LINUX user tasks, in plain
> English, with a corresponding LINUX command. Another section cross
> references DOS commands with LINUX equivalents. A major portion of this
> handy reference is devoted to grouping LINUX commands by type.
> Additionally, an alphabetic cross reference exists for those times when
> you know exactly what LINUX command you need to use.
> 
> Includes detailed listings of all LINUX commands
> 
> Covers all of the GNU command set and the LINUX Bash Shell
> 
> Details LINUX windows manager and fvwm
> 
> Includes X commands from the LINUX X Windows System: XFree86
> 
> Covers File Manipulation, Text Processing, Printing, Internet, and FTP and
> System Administration
> 
> 
> Grendel
> 
> 
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> 
> 
> 
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