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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!hela.iti.org!wotan.iti.org!scs From: scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) Subject: Re: Search for BSD books Message-ID: <scs.713925427@wotan.iti.org> Keywords: books Sender: usenet@iti.org (Hela USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: wotan.iti.org Organization: Industrial Technology Institute References: <1992Aug13.232233.14035@aiware.in-berlin.de> Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 00:37:07 GMT Lines: 35 scm@aiware.in-berlin.de (Harald Schmidt) writes: >I would like to start working with 386BSD, but there are >no books like these from UNIX System V3.2, no programming mans, >no reference mans and no admin books. Three books you should look at: For internals, you need "The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System" by Leffler, McKusic, Karels and Quarterman. Addison-Wesley, 1989, ISBN 0-201-06196-1. *The* book on the internals of BSD 4.3. May be slightly out-of-date with the 4.4isms that have crept into Jolix and BSDI, but still far and away your first choice. For system administration, get "UNIX System Administration Handbook", by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder and Scott Seebass. Prentice-Hall, 1989, ISBN 0-13-933441. 591 pages. Paperback. This is the book to have if you've got BSD or derivatives (Sun, Mt. Xinu, Sequent, etc). Requires expertise to read, but pretty well done. For UNIX programming in general, there's an excellent new book "Advance Programming in the UNIX Environment" by W. Richard Stevens. Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-56317-7. 744 pages. Broad and detailed, highly recommended. Quite reasonably priced for the size, approx $50.00 US. >Does anybody knowns where I can buy those books? In Germany? You've got me.... but undoubtably there are US bookstores which ship overseas. -- "If life were fair, the acquisition of a large bosom or a massive inheritance would have no bearing on your ability to attract the opposite sex, and Dan Quayle would be making a living asking runny-nosed children, `Do you want fries with that?'" -- John Cleese, "Corporate Computing" magazine