Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 22:22:21 -0500 (EST) From: Eric Wayte <ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> To: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Books Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.96.990329222001.24302A-100000@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu> In-Reply-To: <37003522.254B4818@confusion.net>
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O'Reilly did have a Berkeley Unix In A Nutshell, but it's long since out of print. You might see it listed in the back of some of their older books. You might want to look at Unix In Plain English. My wife and I each have a desk copy at work, but I didn't think to compare SysV vs. BSD as we're in a Solaris 2.6 shop... Eric Wayte, DBA Univ. of Central Florida ewayte@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Laurence Berland wrote: > Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 21:21:22 -0500 > From: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net> > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Books > > I went to my local borders today to look in the computing section, and I > was immediately overwhelmed by the sheer number of books. Composing > myself, I wandered over to the Unix section, which somehow was only > about one third Linux (Refreshing to say the least). So I'm looking and > I wander accross the O'Reilly UNIX in a nutshell quick reference. Start > flipping through the pages. It's a very good, useful book, but it's for > SysV not BSD. ANybody know if it'd still be useful for the most part? > Or maybe there's a BSD counterpart? > > Also, just to see what was going on with FreeBSD, I looked for Greg's > book. None in. Asked counter guy, and was glad to hear they actually > sell them, and had just run out. > > -- > Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> > > Windows 98: n. > useless extension to a minor patch release for > 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a > 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system > originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, > written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for > 1 bit of competition. > http://stuy.debate.net > icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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