Reviews for UNIX System V Release 4: An Introduction

1. Best over-all UNIX "How-to" book on the market

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, June 12th, 1999

   I bought the original version of this book in 1991-1992. It's still the best UNIX "How-to" book on the market. Absolutely no other book in my "UNIX library" provides more useful information on such a wide variety of topics: shells, networking, user environment configuration, mail, etc., etc., etc. It's all in here. It's especially great for beginners, since it covers all of the basics that normally provide stumbling blocks for beginning UNIX users. I highly recommend it.

2. An Excellent Unix Book

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, March 12th, 1999

   This book is excellent it goes from basic commands to even teaching you a little Perl programming. I reccomend this book to the advanced users and the beginner . This book is a good reference and also a way to learn unix. It even has a list of books at the end of each chapter that go into that topic's details .

3. The default for using, understanding, and learning UNIX.

   Rated 5 out of 5 stars, June 12th, 1998

   I have had this book for about 1 year. In that time, I have had the oppurtunity to use it to demistify the world's most interesting operating system. There is someting for everyone. What makes this book the default? It does not waste time, and is a fast read.

   The authors understand that your time is valuable. There are 1016 pages divided into 31 chapters, and 119 pages divded into five appdendicies. You will be so excited and glad to learn how everything works, that you won't even know that you missed Voyager, Deep Space Nine, and the convention you and your dying buddy were suppose to go to.

   There truely is no other thick UNIX book that efficently explains what you want to know. I suggest downloading a copy of FreeBSD and following along. With this book, you'll be getting things done, while others are still plowing through the rhetoric of the other guys.