From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun May 28 20:43:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E7F337BB30 for ; Sun, 28 May 2000 20:43:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (r43.bfm.org [216.127.220.139]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Sun, 28 May 2000 22:44:39 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000528224304.008aac10@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 28 May 2000 22:43:04 -0500 To: "leegold" , From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: any good books? In-Reply-To: <000501bfc8f2$e3ea30c0$cedda4d8@leegold1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 18:20 28-05-2000 -0400, leegold wrote: >So in a nutshell, i think there there are NO good intro books on any flavor >of x86 unix.. they all suck Nah, there is one. But to confuse you, its *title* looks like an advanced book. :) It is: Unix Shell Programming, by Stephen G. Kochan and Patrick H. Wood. It is not x86 specific, nor does it cover things like installing the system. But once you have it installed, using Unix really is using a shell, and this book explains it all. Cheers, Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message