Re: newbie question

[Bongo deGilligan <micros50 computer net>]

Dees Tommy J Civ OC-ALC/LAPEPTC wrote:

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> a good site for newbies is also http://isis.acomp.usf.edu/
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>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel [mailto:evilgrendel gmx net]
>  Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 5:27 PM
>  To: Bongo deGilligan
>  Subject: Re: newbie question
>
>
>  On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Bongo deGilligan wrote:
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>  > Several years ago I used a book called "UNIX In Plain English" by Kevin
>  Richard &
>  > Eric F. Johnson, MIS Press. It has a UNIX/DOS command cross reference
>  within as
>  > well as a plain index reference of a wide range of tasks and which Unix
>  command(s)
>  > are used to execute those tasks. The book itself is somewhat outdated but,
>  most of
>  > the Dos and Unix commands within the book are still quite valid.
>  >
>
>  I know this book and I have a HTML version of it. If anyone want's it
>  please tell me and I will mail it...
>
>  Grendel

Hi,  also another  good book that I used when I was trying to gain a familiarity with
the various Unix commands, syntax, and standard Unix utilities was "Open Computing -
UNIX UNBOUND", by Harley Hahn, published by McGraw Hill. The book gives a good
overview of Unix in general and the philosophies behind Unix, it also goes into a
fairly in-depth description of all the standard Unix commands, the command syntax and
examples of command useage. But the book doesn't end with just that. He also
discusses the Unix shell, and useage of some of the Unix command shells.  The author
also discusses the common Unix utilities such as vi, emacs, mail, pipes &
redirection, unix job  control, unix file systems, etc. In the back of the book he
has some nice summarly lists of the standard Unix commands, as well as a vi command
list summary and an emacs command summary, and tons of other Unix related stuff.
Somewhere in the book he even gives a synopsis of Richard Stallman and the "GNU &
Open Source philosophy".  This too was a great book, it was invaluable in helping me
get through learning the basic Unix standards, and I still keep it handy for
reference every now and then.
Although the book is a bit outdated with respect to modern Linux/Unix specifics it is
still quite useful for any Unix beginner trying to gain familiarity with the  Unix
environment...

Sincerely,

John <micros50 computer net>



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