craig@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Craig Hubley) (03/22/91)
Two weeks ago I posted a request for information on System V.4 administration
and programming. I asked for "any and all" and forgot to mention that I
knew of the Prentice-Hall manual set. Oops. Anyway, I was inundated with
references, some of which included ISBN and phone numbers and other useful
stuff, as well as the names of a couple of books I had never heard of,
including one from McGraw-Hill that would seem to be exactly what I needed
(to recommend to someone else). Here's the summary, I tried to preserve
quotes of substance but have summarized and compressed everything else and
probably lost a couple of attributions in the wash.
THANKS AGAIN TO...
ekrell@ulysses.att.com
cjc@ulysses.att.com
dcm@baldur.dell.com (Dave McCracken)
lars@iclswe.icl.se (Lars Tunkrans)
David M Weinreich <dmw4@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu>
trimble@dg-rtp.dg.com (Carlisle C. Trimble)
jde@uwbln.uniware.de (Jutta Degener)
dltaylor@cns.sandiego.ncr.com ()
decanio@shadow.pyramid.com (Tom DeCanio)
SYSTEMS THAT RUN SVr4
Amiga 3000UX, '386, '486 (several vendors including Dell) AT&T 3b2, SPARC
(from ICL and beta from Sun), Fujitsu mainframe, and Sony News (mips based).
PRENTICE HALL SYSVr4 MANUAL SERIES
Prentice Hall publishes the full set of AT&T System Vr4 documentation,
including the man pages, an overview volume, a migration guide, sys
admin guide, etc.
User's
Programmer's
and System Administrator's Reference Manuals
device drivers,
network programming,
ANSI C transition guide,
programming support tools,
etc.
Some more exact titles and references:
"UNIX System V/386 Release 4 Migration Guide"
The 386 sysadmin man pages are in:
"UNIX SYSTEM V/386 RELEASE 4
System Administrator's Reference Manual"
Prentice Hall
ISBN 0-13-957523-5
Machine-independent programmer's doc:
"UNIX SYSTEM V RELEASE 4
Programmer's Guide:
System Services and Application Packaging Tools"
Prentice Hall
ISBN 0-13-947060-3
"Unix System V Release 4
Programmer's Guide:
Character User Interface"
(FMLI and ETI)
from Prentice Hall
ISBN 0-13-947045-X
KORN SHELL
"The Kornshell Command and Programming Language"
by M. Bolsky and D. Korn
Prentice Hall
ISBN 0-13-516972-0
INTRODUCTORY BOOK
" UNIX SVR4 An Introduction "
by Rosen, Rosinski and Faber.
McGraw-Hill
ISBN 0-07-881552-5
Review from: lars@iclswe.icl.se (Lars Tunkrans)
A non-expert-level introduction to SVR4. There is a lot of beginners'
stuff in this book but also quite a lot of new facilities in SVR4 are
covered.
NEW EDITIONS OF OLDER BOOKS
Also, check for the more standard UNIX texts to see if they have new
additions for sVr4
e.g. "UNIX System Security"
by Kochan and Woods
WHERE TO FIND THEM
Software Etc. (owned by B. Dalton Booksellers)
SVR4 Manuals are available from Prentice-Hall publishing.
The whole set runs about $400 in a bookstore, slightly less if
you buy direct from Prentice Hall. (201) 767-5937
Prentice-Hall Canada is in Toronto.
SIMPLIFYING THE INTERFACE TO Vr4 SO THERE IS NOT SO MUCH TO LEARN IN THE
FIRST PLACE, THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO MAKE LEARNING SOFTWARE SIMPLE...
Hope rekindled by: decanio@shadow.pyramid.com (Tom DeCanio)
Fortunately there is a bunch of work going
on to make the administration of these machines more friendly, ie simple
menu driven tools that operate much like stuff you would find on a pc. This
really beats manually editing scads of configuration files.
--
Craig Hubley "...get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert."
Craig Hubley & Associates------------------------------------Henry Ford Sr.
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