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From: davidf@deci.mks.com (David J. Fiander)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: New User's Book
Date: 18 Jan 1996 08:03:05 -0500
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Inc.
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According to alan@s056.aone.net.au (Alan Ruedlinger):
>Can anyone comment on the book "Design & Implementation of 4.3 BSD
>Unix Operating System" by Leffler et. al.?  Is this a good book to the
>new user with no previous unix experience in terms of system
>administration?

It's a great book, but not one for system administrators.  I'd recommend
_Essential Unix System Administration_ by people whose names I should 
remember, and any of the O'Reilly Nutshell books.  (Actually, I don't
recommend "any" of the nutshell books, I recommend "all" of the
nutshell books.)

>Also, I've managed to customise and recompile my kernel, but, uhmmm..
>errr.. how do I compile C programs?  I wrote the all time favourite
>'Hello world!" straight from a book on C, but it won't run :(  I've
>compiled it by typing "gcc -v hello.c"; an a.out file is created but
>when I type a.out, FreeBSD tells me something like 'command not found'
>(incidentally, I tried this on a linux machine and it worked first go
>:)..

DOS always checks your current directory to find programs that
you're trying to run, but UNIX only looks on the PATH; nowhere
else.  Try typing "./a.out".

- David