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For those who simply need to use UNIX on a managed system, the tutorial material here is ragged, the presentation sometimes disorganized, and the sheer physical size daunting. With the rise, however, of Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, NeXTStep and other systems of that ilk, many people will be setting up small UNIX systems. For them, this does provide a more exhaustive overview of the capabilities of UNIX systems and software. A complete listing of the topics would be rather lengthy, the table of contents occupying twelve pages. As well as the usual file and shell commands, though, there is at least introductory material for awk, Perl and C programming; troff and macro formatting; tbl, egn, pic and grap mathematics functions; and, advanced ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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When you buy DOS, you get documentation for it. So a DOS book should be better-written than the original, easier to read, or contain additional information. This book is neither easier to read, nor better written than the original. Some parts may appear "friendlier" but this is generally at the expense of clarity. The important concepts take just as long to define, and sometimes aren't explained as well. Which leaves additional information. Now, there *is* some. For example, the fact that you can't follow the asterisk (*) wildcard with anything *is* discussed, though not when wildcards are covered. (It's in the discussion of deletion.) On the other hand, the very useful "dir/s" isn't even mentioned in the command reference. Th... Rest of this review on the detail page
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"Dose who plays wit' de daemons ob de UNIX, dey better knows what dey's about." Translation: this book is not for the novice. It is for those who already know and use UNIX. And, contrary to the subtitle, which promises "mastery tips", you are mostly going to find tricks here. This is a collection of commands and snippets. Both the material and the organization are subjective and fairly random. What you will find useful, trivial and stupid is going to be personal, but a lot will fall into the latter categories. The lack of explanation often means that if you find a specific command useful, great--but, if you want a related use, you'll have to go elsewhere. Typos abound, such as the reference to the MS-DOS prompt argument of "$P$G... Rest of this review on the detail page
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This is, indeed, voodoo DOS. Voodoo, not as in "mastering the powers of arcane knowledge", but, rather, as in "mystical mumbo-jumbo to impress the gullible". The book is an almost random collection of tricks. Some are useful. Some are trivial. Some make no sense. Some are very dangerous. You are told: - to reinstall DOS if you buy a new monitor - that 197 megs of file compressed into 115 megs of disk means your disk is three times as big - that files in a directory named C:HELP can be accessed by the command "type c:helpme[filename]" - to use "dir." for a listing of files in the current directory (Silly me! All these years, I've been wasting my time with just plain "dir") - throw away your other virus protection and use MSAV (Di... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Part one is a general introduction to Windows 95. Chapter one provides an overview of the basic objects and functions to be found in Windows 95. It is not as quick as it might be, starting with several pages of points on what are supposed to be new features of Windows 95 but are mostly marketing hype. The review of accessory programs in chapter two (with the exception of WordPad) is fairly useless since the material is too short to be of any help. (The complete advice on troubleshooting HyperTerminal is, and I quote, "Adjust the settings as necessary.") Windows Explorer, as the disk and file management utility, is arguably the most important component of Windows 95 for any but the most novice user. Although chapter three gives the su... Rest of this review on the detail page
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