Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-tis!oodis01!uplherc!sp7040!jsp From: jsp@sp7040.UUCP (John Peters) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Need a basic UNIX manual to learn UNIX usage, etc. Message-ID: <463@sp7040.UUCP> Date: 12 Jul 88 20:11:06 GMT References: <1412YZKCU@CUNYVM> Organization: Unisys, Salt Lake City, UT 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? Definitely thousands of pages if you get the whole set. <^> Barring the production of a manual thru use of the UTS system <^> itself, I would like some recommendations of manuals to <^> <^> 1) give a newcomer a good overview of UNIX, and <^> <^> 2) enable a newcomer to start using the UNIX commands <^> intelligently. <^> Admittedly I saw this book after I had figured out a good thing but if you are looking for a book (and already know 'C') on how to both use the system commands, do a little command language (shell) programming and learn some about (maybe more than some) programming in the UNIX environment, I would recommend "The UNIX Programming Environment" by Kernigan and Pike. An Excelent, concise and easy to understand tutorial on UNIX basics. -- Johnnie --