UNIX For Dummies
Hungry Minds Inc,U.S. (Publisher)
4th Edition
Published on 23. September 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
408 pages
978-0-7645-0419-8 (ISBN)
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Description
A reference to working on a UNIX network. It discusses UNIX operating systems, including UNIXWare 7 from the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) and Solaris 2.7 from Sun. This edition also gives attention to the impact of Windows 98 on UNIX and the changes to anticipate with the release of Windows NT. It guides the reader through setting up UNIX terminals, file and directory management, print management, writing UNIX applications, installing and managing UNIX software, working with the UNIX-like LINUX OS, connecting to the Internet via UNIX and also basic troubleshooting and repair.
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Foster City
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
595 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7645-0419-8 (9780764504198)
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Persons
John R. Levine has written or cowritten a dozen computer books, including several bestselling Internet titles. A former software developer, John lectures frequently on the Internet and moderates a newsgroup. He is also a board member of the Coalition Against Unsolicited E-mail, a user advocacy group, and runs the Network Abuse Clearinghouse, which helps users deal with abusive online behavior. Unlike her peers in that 40-something bracket, Margaret Levine Young was exposed to computers at an early age. In high school, she got into a computer club known as the R.E.S.I.S.T.O.R.S., a group of kids who spent Saturdays in a barn fooling around with three antiquated computers. She stayed in the field through college against her better judgment and despite her brother John's presence as a graduate student in the computer science department. Margy graduated from Yale and went on to become one of the first microcomputer managers in the early 1980s at Columbia Pictures, where she rode the elevator with big stars whose names she wouldn't dream of dropping here.Since then, Margy has coauthored more than 20 computer books about the topics of the Internet, UNIX, WordPerfect, Microsoft Access, and (stab from the past) PC-File and Javelin, including The Internet For Dummies, 6th Edition, and WordPerfect 7 For Windows 95 For Dummies (all from IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.). She loves her husband, Jordan; her kids, Meg and Zac; gardening; chickens; reading; and anything to do with eating. Margy and her husband also run Great Tapes for Kids from their home in the middle of a cornfield near Middlebury, Vermont.
Content
Introduction. About This Book. Conventions Used in This Book. Foolish Assumptions. How This Book Is Organized. Part I: In the Beginning. Part II: Some Basic Stuff. Part III: Getting Things Done. Part IV: UNIX and the Net. Part V: Help! Part VI: The Part of Tens. Icons Used in This Book. Where to Go from Here. Part I: In the Beginning. Chapter 1: Log Me In, UNIX! Chapter 2: What Is UNIX, Anyway? Chapter 3: A Few Lines on Linux. Part II: Some Basic Stuff. Chapter 4: Opening Windows on UNIX. Chapter 5: Files for Fun and Profit. Chapter 6: Directories for Fun and Profit. Chapter 7: The Shell Game. Chapter 8: Where's That File? Chapter 9: Printing (The Gutenberg Thing). Part III: Getting Things Done. Chapter 10: Writing Deathless Prose. Chapter 11: Umpteen Useful UNIX Utilities. Chapter 12: Installing Software Can Be Tricky. Chapter 13: Juggling a Bunch of Programs. Chapter 14: Taming Linux. Part IV: UNIX and the Net. Chapter 15: Your Computer Is Not Alone. Chapter 16: Across a Crowded Network. Chapter 17: Automating Your Office Gossip. Chapter 18: Web Surfing for UNIX Users. Chapter 19: Turbocharge Your Newsreading. Chapter 20: Grabbing Files from the Net. Chapter 21: Now Serving the Internet. Part V: Help! Chapter 22: Disaster Relief. Chapter 23: The Case of the Missing Files. Chapter 24: Some Programs Just Won't Die. Chapter 25: "My Computer Hates Me". Part VI: The Part of Tens. Chapter 26: Ten Common Mistakes. Chapter 27: Ten Times More Information than You Want about UNIX. Index. Book Registration Information.