From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 22 9:45: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f262.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.8.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A42A37B424 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:44:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:44:55 -0700 Received: from 194.65.14.68 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:44:55 GMT X-Originating-IP: [194.65.14.68] From: "John Lispton" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: [book] how "compatible" are FreeBSD and "Advanced Programming in the UNIX ..."? Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 22:14:55 IST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 22 Sep 2000 16:44:55.0834 (UTC) FILETIME=[70031FA0:01C024B4] Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi I am a fair C programmer, and would like to start developing under FreeBSD; would you consider the classic «Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment», by W. Richard Stevens to be a good choice for a programming book? Does current FreeBSD programming differ much from the "generic" UNIX programming described in the book? Or can I rest assured that the book contents apply well to FreeBSD? TIA J Lispton _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message