Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mandrill!gatech!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!buengc!bph From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Need a basic UNIX manual to learn UNIX usage, etc. Message-ID: <403@buengc.BU.EDU> Date: 11 Jul 88 21:34:31 GMT References: <1412YZKCU@CUNYVM> Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) Followup-To: comp.unix.questions Organization: Boston Univ. Col. of Eng. Lines: 23 In article <1412YZKCU@CUNYVM> YZKCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Yaakov Kayman) writes: > > Is there a reasonable way to produce an introductory manual from >'man' or some other (set of) command(s)? If so, will the manual size >be in the "low hundreds of pages" range, or more like thousands? It's quicker if you take the pages out of /usr/man/cat* (at least that's what it's called 'round hyar...) since it doesn't have to be deroff'ed before you lpr it. But then, if'n you don't have the un-?roff'ed pages... Plug (or so Prentice-Hall will think): Kernighan & Pike, _The UNIX Programming Environment_, 1984 gives some help ("not $23 worth of help, but some..." as Professor Hubbard has remarked.) It starts out with simple piddle like the "cat" command and runs up to system calls. Oddly, neither it nor K&R mention the word "socket", WHY!?! --Blair