Learning the Unix Operating System (Nutshell Handbooks) - Softcover

Todino-gonguet, Grace; Strang, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0937175161 ISBN 13: 9780937175163

Publisher: O'Reilly Media, 1989

Synopsis

If you are new to UNIX, this concise introduction will tell you just what you need to get started and no more. Why wade through a 600-page book when you can begin working productively in a matter of minutes?Topics covered include:

• Logging in and logging outContents include:
• Window systems (especially X/Motif)
• Managing UNIX files and directories
• Sending and receiving mail
• Redirecting input/output
• Pipes and filters
• Background processing

This book is the most effective introduction to UNIX in print. The third edition provides increased coverage of window systems and networking. It's a handy book for someone just starting with UNIX, as well as someone who encounters a UNIX system as a "visitor" via remote login over the Internet.

About this title

About the Authors

Todino is noa a Professional Expatriate, having lived in Oman, Gabon and Holland for the last 10 years. She currently resides in Malaysia. She writes and edits travel articles for local publications.

John Strang now finds himself ""a consumer--rather than a producer of Nutshells."" He is currently a diagnostic radiologist (MD) at Stanford University. He is married to a pediatrician, Susie, and they have two children, Katie and Alex. John enjoys hiking, bicycling, and dabbling in other sciences. He plans to use his experience as an author at ORA to write his own book on radiology.

Edition details

• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0937175161
• ISBN 13: 9780937175163
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 75
• Editor: Dongherty Dale