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From: enf1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Eric Fischer)
Subject: Should I buy 4.3BSD manuals?
Message-ID: <1994Mar8.022747.9099@midway.uchicago.edu>
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Organization: The University of Chicago
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 1994 02:27:47 GMT
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The past few months I've been doing a lot more Unix-related stuff than
ever before, and the ten-year-old 4.2BSD manuals I have at home just
aren't as useful as I'd like them to be. I was going to order manuals
from Usenix, but apparently the 4.4 manuals aren't going to be out for
a few months and the 4.3 system administration manual is already out
of print. So actually I have two questions:
1. How different are 4.3 and 4.4? I'd feel really silly spending $60
on 4.3 manuals if the 4.4 ones were a lot better.
2. If they are a lot different, do I _want_ 4.4 manuals? Since all
my Unixing to date is under SunOS and probably will be for a
while, would the 4.4 info be as inaccurate as the 4.2?
Many thanks for any answers you can provide... and does anyone have
used 4.3 manuals they want to get rid of?
Eric
enf1@ellis.uchicago.edu