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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
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Date: 15 Jul 88 16:53:07 GMT
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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.  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.