From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 22 12: 0:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from sword.cisco.com (sword.cisco.com [161.44.208.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0034337B42C for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:00:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sjt-u10.cisco.com (sjt-u10.cisco.com [161.44.208.184]) by sword.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.6.5) with ESMTP id OAA16248; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 14:58:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Tremblett Received: (sjt@localhost) by sjt-u10.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/CISCO.WS.1.2) id PAA24818; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:00:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200009221900.PAA24818@sjt-u10.cisco.com> Subject: Re: [book] how "compatible" are FreeBSD and "Advanced Programming in the UNIX ..."? To: jlispton@hotmail.com (John Lispton) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:00:45 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Lispton" at Sep 22, 2000 10:14:55 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG That book is actually quite BSD-specific - it would be a wonderful choice. The FreeBSD installation contains a package of the libraries from that book! Good luck! +--- John Lispton wrote: | | 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? | -- Steve Tremblett Cisco Systems To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message