Need a basic UNIX manual to learn UNIX usage, etc.

[John Peters]

In article <1412YZKCU at CUNYVM>, YZKCU at CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Yaakov Kayman) writes:
<^>     Is there a reasonable way to produce an introductory manual from
<^> 'man' or some other (set of) command(s)? If so, will the manual size
<^> be in the "low hundreds of pages" range, or more like thousands?

Definitely thousands of pages if you get the whole set.

<^>     Barring the production of a manual thru use of the UTS system
<^> itself, I would like some recommendations of manuals to
<^> 
<^>     1) give a newcomer a good overview of UNIX, and
<^> 
<^>     2) enable a newcomer to start using the UNIX commands
<^>        intelligently.
<^> 
	Admittedly I saw this book after I had figured out a good thing but
if you are looking for a book (and already know 'C') on how to both use
the system commands, do a little command language (shell) programming and
learn some about (maybe more than some) programming in the UNIX environment,
I would recommend "The UNIX Programming Environment" by Kernigan and Pike.
An Excelent, concise and easy to understand tutorial on UNIX basics.

				--  Johnnie  --