scott@spectra.COM (Tim Scott) (11/21/89)
Anybody have any comments on the newly released book on A/UX
by (I believe) John Harrington, pub. Brady Books? I think it's
called "A/UX Handbook".
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In article <282@spectra.COM> scott@spectra.COM (Tim Scott) writes:
Anybody have any comments on the newly released book on A/UX
by (I believe) John Harrington, pub. Brady Books? I think it's
called "A/UX Handbook".
I have very briefly glanced through the pages. While the book did not
appear to hold any "must have" value, it did appear to have many of
the items I would look for, if I had no Apple documentation. Without
going into the book deeper, I could not tell if it included any
undocumented or inside information. It did look absolutely worth the
price.gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (11/26/89)
I looked through it in a bookstore yesterday. Not recommended unless
you need your hand held very tightly. If you know what "ls" output
looks like, or know how to read the Apple manuals, pass it by. It is
just another in the mounds of poor "unix for the novice" books. It
seems to be a long time out of date, too, since the only stuff it
mentions is what came standard in A/UX 1.0, and the StarNine
utilities. (It does talk about 1.1 and how Apple bought and crippled
the StarNine stuff for it, but doesn't mention X windows for example).
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