From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 5:23:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com [24.6.21.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8027B37BE0B for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 05:23:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from conrads@cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by cx344940-a.meta1.la.home.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA00888; Tue, 9 May 2000 07:23:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <391cecee.7179466@relay.skynet.be> Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 07:23:20 -0500 (CDT) Organization: @Home Network From: Conrad Sabatier To: (Bart Lateur) Subject: RE: Book recommendations (was: Re: Clear Screen Before Logout) Cc: Freebsd Questions Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-May-00 Bart Lateur wrote: > On Mon, 8 May 2000 21:29:14 -0500, TymbrWlf wrote: > >>I bought "UNIX secrets" by James C. Armstrong, Jr. and it's been very >>helpful (so was "UNIX for Dummies" ;-), but I freely admit I'm a UNIX >>Dummy). (To Alan; "The Unix C Shell Field Guide" is next on the list.) Eeek! You should look up the net treatise on why you should *not* program in the C shell. A very interesting and entertaining read. [snip] > Well, you probably get the gist. I want a blend of a tutorial, a > cookbook, and a reference manual (WHY you need to do things a certain > way). > > Any recommendations? Does any of the cited titles come close? And are > there (Free)BSD specific things, i.e. differences with other Unices, > that I should be aware of? "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" by W. Richard Stevens (Addison-Wesley). If there's any book that could rightly be called the Unix programmer's bible, it's got to be this one. Very thorough, very clear, very well organized. If only all books were this good. -- Conrad Sabatier http://members.home.net/conrads/ ICQ# 1147270 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message