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From: bicker@hoqax.UUCP (The Resource, Poet of Quality)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Recommendations on good *nix books sought
Message-ID: <1632@hoqax.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jul 88 12:40:06 GMT
References: <6975@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Semantic Engineering Center
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In article <6975@cup.portal.com>, dstein@cup.portal.com writes:
> I am looking for any good book(s) on Unix and/or Xenix.

My choice is _E_x_p_l_o_r_i_n_g _t_h_e _U_N_I_X [_t_m] _S_y_s_t_e_m by Kochan & Wood put
out by Hayden.  I found its slight tutorial style to be very
helpful from a pedagogical standpoint while at the same time it was
not patronizing.  It has two faults: 1) It spends almost 30 pages
on vi, without presenting the alternatives.  (I'd probably complain
more about that if it were not for the fact the many system
commands use vi's data formats for regular expressions.)  2) It was
written before the Korn Shell became the standard.  A quick read-up
on ksh will fix this problem.

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