bobd@telxon.UUCP (Bob Drotleff) (05/02/90)
Hi, Can someone give me information on a good book(s) for understanding/using/implementing communications between UNIX systems and other systems whether they be UNIX or otherwise. Basically, I'm trying to understand data communications in UNIX terms i.e. sockets, cu etc. or anything. Any help is greatly appreciated. Please Email me with any info. Thanx again.
dipto@umbc3.UMBC.EDU (Dipto Chakravarty) (05/03/90)
In article <525@telxon.UUCP> bobd@telxon.UUCP (Bob Drotleff) writes: > > Hi, > Can someone give me information on a good book(s) > for understanding/using/implementing communications > between UNIX systems and other systems whether they be > UNIX or otherwise. Computer Networking (?) by Andrew Tanenbaum - if you are looking for theoritical stuff like routing-tables, packet transmission, etc. Internetworking with TCP/IP by Douglas Comer - good for conceptual understanding of TCP/IP and related protocols with light duty material on NFS and YP. ( A good text called UNIX networking by Kochan is also available, for light reading. ) UNIX Networking by Stevens - this takes you to code level details of RPC implementation and socket usage. i have found this newly published text exceedingly informative and helpful for the hands-on stuff, which is what i am primarily involved with. For UUCP and 'cu' like stuff I have found the ref. manuals more helpful than the texts published on UNIX communications, etc. Hope this helps. -Dipto Chakravarty .