mohan@ihlpf.ATT.COM (Mohan Palat) (03/22/89)
>I recently received an order reply card from Prentice Hall for three >of there UNIX related books. One of them piqued my curiosity - I'm >not really sure what it is talking about. The book's title is >"UNIX RELATIONAL DATABASE MANAGENT: APPLICATIONS DEVELOPMENT IN >THE UNIX ENVIRONMENT." I have a copy of the book "UNIX Relational Database Management ..." by Manis, Schaffer, Jorgensen. It is an unbelievably bad and worthless book. The book has 476 pages, of which pages 215-476 contains the entire /rdb manual (/rdb is supposedly a primitive database manager that is written in shell). Pages 149-215 contains installation and other info on /rdb. Pages 23-58 is a detailed guide to an /rdb database editor called "ve." So one is left with very little useful reading material in the book (if one call it that). Here's a quote from one of the first few chapters of the book: "This book aims at nothing less than a revolution in computing. It challenges some of the most encrusted assumptions and proposes a simple, elegant approach which solves many of the major problems in computing today." The authors then proceed to discuss how to install and use the /rdb database/file manager. Mohan Palat ihlpf!mohan -- MOHAN PALAT