From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 4 21:02:46 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 944AF16A4CE for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 21:02:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from math.missouri.edu (math.missouri.edu [128.206.49.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32BF643D3F for ; Wed, 4 May 2005 21:02:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from [128.206.49.166] (cauchy.math.missouri.edu [128.206.49.166]) by math.missouri.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j44K6YNS083880; Wed, 4 May 2005 15:06:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Message-ID: <42792B4A.8030609@math.missouri.edu> Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 15:06:34 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Organization: University of Missouri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050427 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pablo Mora References: <200505041214.22044.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-100.0 required=4.0 tests=USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on math.missouri.edu X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.71, clamav-milter version 0.71 X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Files in C. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 04 May 2005 21:02:46 -0000 Pablo Mora wrote: > what do they think of the book: Advanced Programming In The Unix > Environment (Richard Stevens) ?? > > is a good option to learn C on Unix ? > I really liked his Unix Network Programming Vol 1, but this book and his Vol 2 are also very good, so I would suggest getting all three. I might have hesitation over Vol 2, but only because it covers stuff that you might not need. He writes extremely well. -- Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen@math.missouri.edu http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen