Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!tut!santra!s29873f From: s29873f@saha.HUT.FI (Veli-Pekka Pulkkinen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Recommendations on good *nix books sought Keywords: A-good-Unix-book Message-ID: <14588@santra.UUCP> Date: 15 Jul 88 16:53:07 GMT References: <6975@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@santra.UUCP Reply-To: s29873f@saha.UUCP (Veli-Pekka Pulkkinen) Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 13 In article <6975@cup.portal.com> dstein@cup.portal.com writes: >I am looking for any good book(s) on Unix and/or Xenix. I am very MSDOS >proficient but have never had a real reason to use Unix and want to see >what it is all about. I am particularly interested in books that go into >slightly more detail than "ls is a the Unix equivalent of DOS's dir function" >but don't get too intense too soon (although any well written book is worth For an introducing source of Unix knowledge I would recommend a book called A USER GUIDE TO THE UNIX SYSTEM written by Dr. Rebecca Thomas and Jean Yates. It is published by Osborne McGraw-Hill and is found by ISBN 0-07-881109-0. The book covers both System V and Berkeley UNIX. It really teaches you to use a UNIX system, unlike THE UNIX SYSTEM by Bourne. After reading this book you are ready (and willing) to read more comprehensive publications.