System V.4 information sources summary

[Craig Hubley]

Two weeks ago I posted a request for information on System V.4 administration
and programming.  I asked for "any and all" and forgot to mention that I
knew of the Prentice-Hall manual set.  Oops.  Anyway, I was inundated with
references, some of which included ISBN and phone numbers and other useful
stuff, as well as the names of a couple of books I had never heard of, 
including one from McGraw-Hill that would seem to be exactly what I needed
(to recommend to someone else).  Here's the summary, I tried to preserve
quotes of substance but have summarized and compressed everything else and
probably lost a couple of attributions in the wash.

THANKS AGAIN TO...

	ekrell at ulysses.att.com
	cjc at ulysses.att.com
	dcm at baldur.dell.com (Dave McCracken)
	lars at iclswe.icl.se (Lars Tunkrans)
	David M Weinreich <dmw4 at cunixa.cc.columbia.edu>
	trimble at dg-rtp.dg.com (Carlisle C. Trimble)
	jde at uwbln.uniware.de (Jutta Degener)
	dltaylor at cns.sandiego.ncr.com ()
	decanio at shadow.pyramid.com (Tom DeCanio)


SYSTEMS THAT RUN SVr4

Amiga 3000UX, '386, '486 (several vendors including Dell) AT&T 3b2, SPARC
(from ICL and beta from Sun), Fujitsu mainframe, and Sony News (mips based).


PRENTICE HALL SYSVr4 MANUAL SERIES

Prentice Hall publishes the full set of AT&T System Vr4 documentation,
including the man pages, an overview volume, a migration guide, sys
admin guide, etc.  

	User's
	Programmer's
	and System Administrator's Reference Manuals 
	device drivers,
	network programming, 
	ANSI C transition guide, 
	programming support tools,
	etc.

Some more exact titles and references:
	
		"UNIX System V/386 Release 4 Migration Guide"

	The 386 sysadmin man pages are in:
		"UNIX SYSTEM V/386 RELEASE 4
		System Administrator's Reference Manual"
		Prentice Hall
		ISBN 0-13-957523-5

	Machine-independent programmer's doc:
		"UNIX SYSTEM V RELEASE 4
		Programmer's Guide:
		System Services and Application Packaging Tools"
		Prentice Hall
		ISBN 0-13-947060-3

		"Unix System V Release 4 
		Programmer's Guide:
		Character User Interface"
		(FMLI and ETI)
		from Prentice Hall
		ISBN 0-13-947045-X


KORN SHELL

	"The Kornshell Command and Programming Language"
	by M. Bolsky and D. Korn 
	Prentice Hall
	ISBN 0-13-516972-0


INTRODUCTORY BOOK

	" UNIX SVR4 An Introduction " 
	by Rosen, Rosinski and Faber. 
	McGraw-Hill
	ISBN 0-07-881552-5

	Review from:	lars at iclswe.icl.se (Lars Tunkrans)
	A non-expert-level introduction to SVR4.  There is a lot of beginners'
	stuff in this book but also quite a lot of new facilities in SVR4 are
	covered.


NEW EDITIONS OF OLDER BOOKS

Also, check for the more standard UNIX texts to see if they have new
additions for sVr4

e.g.	"UNIX System Security" 
	by Kochan and Woods


WHERE TO FIND THEM

Software Etc. (owned by B. Dalton Booksellers)

SVR4 Manuals are available from Prentice-Hall publishing.
	The whole set runs about $400 in a bookstore, slightly less if
	you buy direct from Prentice Hall.  (201) 767-5937
	Prentice-Hall Canada is in Toronto.


SIMPLIFYING THE INTERFACE TO Vr4 SO THERE IS NOT SO MUCH TO LEARN IN THE
FIRST PLACE, THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO MAKE LEARNING SOFTWARE SIMPLE...

Hope rekindled by:	decanio at shadow.pyramid.com (Tom DeCanio)

Fortunately there is a bunch of work going
on to make the administration of these machines more friendly, ie simple
menu driven tools that operate much like stuff you would find on a pc.  This
really beats manually editing scads of configuration files.

-- 
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