4.3BSD manual sets: Whotta deal

[John Sloan]

Recently I joined the USENIX Association as an individual member.  As a
member of USENIX you can order a complete set of 4.3BSD Berkeley UNIX
manuals.  These manuals are the _complete_ 4.3BSD documentation. Man
pages, supplementary documentation, systems administrator guide,
everything, including a master index in a seperate volume, and
keyword-in-context (KWIC) indices in each volume of man pages.

There are perhaps eight volumes in all, about the same size as the
standard PC manuals, with covers and color-coded and labelled plastic
ring binders.  All for $60. That's sixty bucks. This value is no less
than incredible. For a little more than the cost of most CS textbooks
(and less then some) you can have a complete set of nicely bound 4.3BSD
manuals. Heck, you can't laser print or photo reproduce them that
cheaply.

Even if you have to join USENIX, at $40 a year, the manuals are _STILL_
a great deal. Consider that a single AT&T System V volume (one of
perhaps ten) from Prentice-Hall costs a bundle. (Joining USENIX just
for its own sake is not so bad, either.)

No connection with USENIX, except as a member, nor with the publisher,
except as a satisfied customer. I just received my manual set last
night, and was very impressed at what I got for my money. As an extra
added bonus, the little cartoon Daemon that appears on the cover and
spine of the Berkeley UNIX implementation book by Leffler et. al. is
also on the cover of each BSD volume. If you purchase the Leffler
textbook as well (which is expensive as heck, but probably worth it)
you'll have as complete a set of BSD documentation as exists
commercially.

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