From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) Subject: Re: Fairly good book Date: 7 Jul 1992 18:23:51 GMT
In article <1992Jul7.090852.5483@cl.cam.ac.uk> qs101@cl.cam.ac.uk (Quentin Stafford-Fraser) writes:
>If you are new to unix, or, like me, you've never had a root password
>before, you might be interested in a book I've just come across:
>
> "Unix for Super-Users" by E. Foxley
> Addison-Wesley
> (International Computer Science Series)
> ISBN 0 201 14228 7
>
>Some of the info is a little dated now, but it's a good (and cheap)
>introduction to the the things superusers need to know, but ordinary
>users generally don't. It's also not bad as an introduction to Unix
>itself (sh & csh, tar, mount, cpp, make, nroff etc.).
>
My first Unix book was "DOS | Unix Systems, Becoming a Super User", a
$0.99 "red tag" special that my mother picked up once. I didn't think
I'd get so much out of such a cheap book! :-)
-- Jim H. * * James L. Henrickson ujlh@sunyit.edu * "Yet another Jim in the Linux world." :-)