Hands-On UNIX: A Practical Guide with the Essentials of...

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 864 pages
• Published by: Addison-Wesley Professional; Pap/Dsk edition October 7, 1994
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0805375686
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0805375688
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.4 inches
• Weighs: 2.4 pounds

Product Description
An essential reference for both novice and experienced UNIX users, the book guides the reader through each chapter with the help of easy-to-follow examples, sample screens, command summaries, and chapter review exercises. Based on the third edition of UNIX System V: A Practical Guide which has been thoroughly revised to reflect the changes made in UNIX System V Release 4.2.

Back Cover Copy
This great package delivers Unix System V: A Practical Guide, plus The Essentials of Coherent, a popular PC-based Unix operating system clone developed by the Mark Williams Company.

The third edition of Unix System V: A Practical Guide is a complete tutorial guide to System V Release 4.2 that has been thoroughly updated to reflect the changes made in this version of Unix.

With a look and feel almost identical to that of Unix, Coherent is a virtual clone of the Unix operating system for the PC. Users will gain practical, hands-on experience from this mini-version of the Coherent operating system, taking advantage of Coherent's multi-user, multi-tasking capabilities and utilizing a wide range of utilities and commands. To make this software even easier to use, online help is included and the commands discussed both in the book and on the diskette have the same name and function.

Essentials of Coherent includes:

• The shells: ksh and sh
• Commands for displaying and manipulating files: awk, cat, cp, ed, find, grep, head, kill, lc, ls, ln, me, mkdir, mv, pg, qfind, rm, rmdir, sed, sort, tail, uniq, vi, and wc
• Commands for displaying and altering status: chgrp, chmod, chown, date, df, du, file, newgrp, newusr, ps, pwd, and stty
• Programming tools: c compiler, make, and touch
• Additional tools: at, ATclock, clear, crontab, fsck, login, mknod, mount, passwd, sync, tr, and umount
• New chapters discussing the Korn Shell, the emacs text editor, Networking, and Graphical User Interfaces
• Coverage of the latest releases of UNIX as well as the POSIX Standards
• An enhanced, step-by-step tutorial introduction to UNIX that incorporates examples, exercises, sample screens, and review questions
• A demonstration of the use of UNIX for text editing, electronic mail, shell programming, and other applications, and present in-depth coverage of the make, SCCS, RCS, awk, and sed programming tools
• An invaluable overview of the UNIX system in Chapter 1
• Coverage of the Bourne, C, and Korn shells in detail and explain how to write shell programs (shell scripts)
• A reference to more than 75 of the most frequently used UNIX utilities in Part II
• Clearly marked sections of optional advanced material for experienced UNIX users

Hardware Requirements

The 3.5" and 5.25" diskettes will run on IBM PC-AT (and compatible) 286, 386 and 486 machines. At least 640K of RAM is required. The software will only function through the A floppy drive. It will not function through the B drive or on microchannel-based machines.

Coherent is a registered trademark of Mark Williams Company.

0805375686B04062001