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- UNIX For Beginners
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- .ps 10
- Brian W. Kernighan
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- .ps 10
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- .AB
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- This paper is meant to help
- new users get started on UNIX.
- It covers:
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- \(bu basics needed for day-to-day use of the system _
- typing commands, correcting typing mistakes, logging in and out,
- mail, inter-console communication,
- the file system, printing files,
- redirecting I/O, pipes, and the shell.
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- \(bu document preparation _
- a brief tutorial on the
- \s-2ROFF\s+2
- formatter for beginners, hints on preparing documents,
- and capsule descriptions of some supporting software.
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- \(bu \s-2UNIX\s+2 programming _
- using the editor, programming the shell, programming in C,
- other languages.
- .PP
- There is also an annotated UNIX bibliography.
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