Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!n44a!ima!haddock!johnl From: johnl@haddock.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: UNIX OS References - (nf) Message-ID: <46@haddock.UUCP> Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 23:41:43 EST Article-I.D.: haddock.46 Posted: Mon Jan 30 23:41:43 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 1-Feb-84 01:48:41 EST Lines: 20 #R:hp-kirk:18700001:haddock:16700006:000:738 haddock!johnl Jan 30 11:35:00 1984 There are many books out on the Unix system. Here are a few, ranked in my entirely subjective order of preference. McGilton and Morgan, "Introducing the UNIX System," Byte Books (McGraw Hill), 1983. $18.95, paper. Readable and fairly complete. Includes sections on Berklix stuff and on system management. Bourne, "The UNIX System," Addison-Wesley, 1982. ~$20.00, paper. Breathtakingly complete, especially the part on shell programming, but it reads kind of like the Algol-68 report. Thomas and Yates, "A User Guide to the UNIX System," Osborne/McGraw Hill, 1982. $16, paper. Readable, but not very complete. Lots of examples. The second half on "The Unix system and office automation" is total blather. John Levine, ima!johnl