Need a basic UNIX manual to learn UNIX usage, etc.

Blair P. Houghton bph at buengc.BU.EDU
Tue Jul 12 07:34:31 AEST 1988


In article <1412YZKCU at CUNYVM> YZKCU at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Yaakov Kayman) writes:
>
>    Is there a reasonable way to produce an introductory manual from
>'man' or some other (set of) command(s)? If so, will the manual size
>be in the "low hundreds of pages" range, or more like thousands?

It's quicker if you take the pages out of /usr/man/cat* (at least
that's what it's called 'round hyar...) since it doesn't have to be
deroff'ed before you lpr it.

But then, if'n you don't have the un-?roff'ed pages...

Plug (or so Prentice-Hall will think):

	Kernighan & Pike, _The UNIX Programming Environment_, 1984

gives some help ("not $23 worth of help, but some..." as Professor
Hubbard has remarked.)  It starts out with simple piddle like
the "cat" command and runs up to system calls.

Oddly, neither it nor K&R mention the word "socket", WHY!?!

				--Blair



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