tpm@uunet.uu.net (Terence P. Ma) (03/28/91)
Folks ... Is there a basic, simple, introductory book on UNIX (preferably dealing with the SunOS variant) that is cheap and I can just stock up copies on and distribute. I am in an environment where I have several medical students and graduate students a year rotating through my lab. Most do not have UNIX or much computer background, but need to be able to get around in my system and utilize the home-grown analysis software that I have. They are usually running off a dumb terminal or off a modem line with VT100 emulation. I have Sun SPARC running SunOS 4.1.1. I appreciate the lists that I've seen, but they don't tell me what would be good for my group of non-computer users (many think that the Mac and MacOS are a really sophisticated). I have written a very basic intro, but I don't have time (nor expertise) to write a detailed document. Thanks in advance! Tere ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** Terence P. Ma, Ph.D. Department of Anatomy If it were easy, some one University of Mississippi Medical Center would have done it already. 2500 North State Street -- anonymous Jackson, MS 39216 VOICE: 601-984-1654 UUCP: tpm-sprl!tpm@uunet.uu.net ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (04/03/91)
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There are several books your users might find understandable. I suspect
you're going to have to review at least a few before you find one you can
settle on for your users, so the best way to go is probably to go through the
book list, rank the ones you think are possibilities from the most likely to
the least likely, and buy them one at a time and read them (or get them from a
library) until you settle on one that'll do.
I'd recommend "Learning the UNIX Operating System" by O'Reilly, since their
introductory books tend to be very good. You might also try "UNIX in a
Nutshell," also by O'Reilly. The book list claims that "The Unix
Environment," by A.N. Walker, is "an excellent user's introduction," so that
might be worth looking at too. There's also "Unix for People," by Birns,
Brown and Muster, and "Using the UNIX system" by Richard L. Gauthier, which
the book list says is an "introductory level book, extremely basic and easy
reading."
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