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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
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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  --