It is an up-to-date introduction to UNIX that provides complete yet concise coverage of UNIX operating system features and commands. The book covers current topics, such as the X graphical user interface, Internet navigation, the World Wide Web, and textformatting with LaTeX. UNIX utilities, shell-level programming, and C-level programming are covered as well. Coverage of both System V and Berkeley UNIX (BSD) makes the book useful on most current systems. A bound-in disk provides sample code and shell scripts suitable for UNIX systems and PCs.
Benefits:
Coverage of both UNIX System V and Berkeley Standard UNIX (BSD) gives students complete coverage of the latest UNIX standards in industry and academia.
UNIX Primer (Chapter 1) gets students up and running quickly on the UNIX environment.
Early presentation (in Chapter 3) of the X Window System gives students an early introduction to the most popular graphical user interface(s) for UNIX, with an example provided in the context of p...