A. General UNIX texts... 1. Don Libes and Sandy Ressler, Life with Unix - A Guide for Everyone, Prentice Hall, 1989 An everything-you-need-to-know-about Unix books...Comprehensive and well organized...but with too lengthy discussions on the history and politics of the Unix operating system... 2. Kaare Christian, The Unix Operating System, Wiley, 1988 Comprehensive coverage of Unix system and commands...Almost excellent... 3. Mark Sobell, A Practical Guide to the Unix System, Benjamin/Cummings, 1989 Similar to Christian's book...A bit easier to read... 4. James Groff and Paul Weinberg, Understanding Unix - A Conceptual Guide, Que, 1988 An introductory text...Not technical enough... 5. Peter Norton and Harley Hahn, Peter's Norton Guide to Unix, Bantam Computer, 1991 One in the numerous books by Peter Norton...Good coverage...Not bad... 6. James Gardner, Learning Unix, Sams, 1991 With disks contain DOS stimulation of Unix commands...A good tutorial / reference book for those without access to Unix... 7. Douglas Topham, A System V Guide to Unix and Xenix, Springer-Verlag, 1990 Another comprehensive text...A bit difficult to read...Some errors... 8. Gail Anderson and Paul Anderson, The Unix C Shell Field Guide, Prentice Hall, 1986 A good book on using the C shell for intermediate users...A little bit outdated... 9. Linda Lamb, Learning the vi Editor, O'Reilly, 1990 A good book on vi (stands for very irritating
and ex...With a quick reference command card... 10. Deb Cameron and Bill Rosenblatt, Learning the GNU Emacs, O'Reilly, 1991 Comprehensive but too lengthy...(emacs is so easy to use, why bother to buy a book
... B. Unix Networking and Communication 1. Stephen Kochan and Patrick Wood ed., Unix Networking, Hayden, 1989 Highly technical on networking... 2. Bart Anderson, et al., The Waite Group's Unix Communications, Sams, 1991 A real good book...on e-mail, Elm, netnews, rn, nn... 3. Tim O'Reilly and Grace Todino, Managing uucp and Usenet, O'Reilly, 1992 4. Grace Todino and Dale Dougherty, Using uucp and Usenet, O'Reilly, 1991 Well written books on uucp and Netnews...the latter book is less technical... C. Unix System Administration 1. David Fiedler et al., Unix System V Release 4 Administration, Hayden, 1991 2. Aeleen Frisch, Essential System Administration, O'Reilly, 1991 3. Bruce Hunter and Karen Hunter, Unix Systems - Advanced Administration and Management Handbook, Macmillan, 1991 All three are good for intermediate-advanced Unix users and sys. admins... 3. is probably the best... D. Unix Security... 1. Simson Garfinkel and Gene Spafford, Practical Unix Security, O'Reilly, 1991 Covering all security issues of multi-users Unix system...Maybe an ideal reading for crackers / forgers as well... E. Programming 1. Samuel Harbison and Guy Steele, C - A Reference Manual, Prentice Hall, 1991 2. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, The C Programming Language, Prentice Hall, 1988 These two are probably the best books on C programming on Unix and everywhere else... Other C books include... 3. Nigel Horspool, C Programming in the Berkeley Unix Environment, Prentice Hall, 1986 4. David Curry, Using C on the Unix System, O'Reilly, 1990 5. Steve Oualline, Practical C Programming, O'Reilly, 1991 And so on... 6. Larry Wall and Randal Schwartz, Programming Perl, O'Reilly, 1991 Probably the only book on Perl, a language for easily manipulating text, files and processes... (Perl is ftp-able). F. TeX 1. Donald Knuth, The TeXbook, Addison-Wesley, 1990 2. Leslie Lamport, LATeX - A Document Preparation System, Addison Wesley, 1986 The bibles of TeX users...
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