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From: [e-mail] (Mitch Wright)
Subject: YABL (Yet Another Book List) [Part 1 of 2]
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Summary: A list of Unix, C, OS type books...
Originator: mitch@ss197
Keywords: C, Unix, books, yabl
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Greetings all!  It has been some time since I have posted a version of YABL,
certainly not due to lack of demand -- I've had plenty of requests for it.
I'm going to try and get this (and/or it's diffs) posted at least once a
quarter unless no significant entries have been added.  So, with that said
and done...

   ~mitch

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TITLE: *** YABL ***
AUTHOR: Mitch Wright
AUTHOR: Fellow USENET Readers...
DATE:  Mon Jul 27 00:42:53 PDT 1992
COMMENTS
   For complaints, kudos, suggestions, corrections, additions, donations, ...
   drop me an E-mail note -- [e-mail]

   The latest version of this list can be obtained via anonymous ftp from

    ftp.rahul.net    pub/mitch/YABL/yabl

TITLE: !%@:: A Guide to Electronic Mail Addressing, 2nd edition
AUTHOR: Frey, Donnalyn
AUTHOR: Adams, Rick
SUBJECT: Introduction
PUBLISHER: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
DATE: 1990
PAGES: 438
ISBN: 0-937175-15-3-0
APPROX_COST: 27.95
KEYWORDS: Nutshell Handbook
SUPPLIERS
    E-mail: ... uunet!ora!nuts
    Phone#: [phone]-NUTS
COMMENTS
    Answers the problem of addressing mail to people you've never met, on
    networks you've never heard of.  Includes a general introduction to
    e-mail, followed by detailed reference sections for over 130 networks.

TITLE: The AWK Programming Language
AUTHOR: Aho, Al
AUTHOR: Kernighan, Brian
AUTHOR: Weinberger, Peter
SUBJECT: AWK Programming
PUBLISHER: Addison Wesley
DATE: 1988
PAGES: 210
ISBN: 0-201-07981-X
LC: 87-17566
APPROX_COST: 23.75

TITLE: The Art of Distributed Appl., Programming Techniques for RPC
AUTHOR: Corbin, John R.
PUBLISHER: Springer-Verlag (Part of Sun Techincal Reference Library)
DATE: 1991
PAGES: 558
ISBN: 0-387-97247-1
APPROX_Cost: 39.95
SUGGESTED_BY: "Betty Jo Armstead, Sverdrup" <[e-mail]>
COMMENTS
    An excellent book for anyone starting to develop RPC applications.his
    The book covers SUN style RPC programming with lots of examples. the
    It covers XDR, RPC Protocol, RPC programming, Low-level RPC
        Programming, Additional RPC Library Features, RPCGEN, Developing
        RPC-based Distributed Applications and the future of RPC
        programming.  The books also hints at multithreaded RPC
        applications, but provides no examples and very little discussion
        on this topic.

TITLE: Advanced C Programming for Displays
AUTHOR: Rochkind, Marc J.
SUBJECT: Programming
PUBLISHER: Prentice-Hall
DATE: 1988
PAGES: 331
ISBN: 0-13-010240-07
APPROX_COST: 32.95
SUGGESTED_BY: "Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E" <[e-mail]>
COMMENTS
    Covers Character Displays, Windows, and Keyboards for UNIX and MS-DOS.

TITLE: Advanced UNIX Programming
AUTHOR: Rochkind, Marc J.
SUBJECT: Programming
PUBLISHER: Prentice-Hall
EDITION: 1985, pp 265
ISBN: 0-13-011818-4 HBK
ISBN: 0-13-011800-1 PBK
APPROX_COST: 32.95 HBK
APPROX_COST: 24.95 PBK
KEYWORDS: SYSV
COMMENTS
    Rochkind is a former Bell Labs UNIX guru who wrote SCCS back in the
    mid 70's.  This book is exactly what the title states, basically an
    extremely thorough treatment of programming using the UNIX System
    Call Interface.  System V, System III, V7, 4.2 BSD, and Xenix are
    all discussed.  The system calls are organized functionally into
    chapters that cover file i/o, terminal i/o, process control,
    interprocess communication, and miscellaneous calls.  The opening
    chapter is an overvview of fundamental concepts of UNIX.  Anytime
    I have a question on the usage of system calls I consult this book.
    The only problem with it is that it needs to be updated per
    System V Rel 3, 4.3 BSD and the efforts of Sun and AT&T to bring
    SunOS and System V together as well as the efforts in the UNIX 386
    world.

TITLE: Advanced UNIX: A Programmer's Guide
AUTHOR: Prata, Stephen
SUBJECT: Programming Guide
PUBLISHER: Howard W. Sams & Co.
DATE: 1985
PAGES: 484
ISBN: 0-067-22403-8.
APPROX_COST: 24.95
KEYWORDS: SYSV
COMMENTS
    Prata assumes you know how to login and use an editor.  It's very
    good for shell programing.

TITLE: BSD 4.3 Manual Set
AUTHOR: University of California Berkeley
SUBJECT: 4.3 BSD UNIX Operating System
DATE: June 1988
PAGES: <lots>
ISBN: <unknown>
APPROX_COST: 60.00/set
SUGGESTED_BY: An anonymous BSD zealot
SUPPLIERS:
    Printed by the USENIX Association as a service to the UNIX Comm.
COMMENTS
    This is a must for programmers, administrator, and users alike.
    If you are in contact with the BSD UNIX Operating system, YOU
    need these manuals!  Kudos to the boys at Cory and Evans!

TITLE: A Book on C
AUTHOR: Kelley, Al
AUTHOR: Pohl, Ira
SUBJECT: C Programming
PUBLISHER: Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Inc.
DATE: 1984
PAGES: 362
ISBN: 0-8053-6860-4
APPROX_COST: 32.25
SUGGESTED_BY: Mitch Wright <[e-mail]>
COMMENTS
    This is a book written with the beginning C programmer in mind.

TITLE: Checking C Programs with lint
AUTHOR: Darwin, Ian F.
SUBJECT: lint
PUBLISHER: O'Reilly & Associates
DATE: 1990
PAGES: 84
ISBN: 0-937175-30-7
APPROX_COST: 12.95
KEYWORDS: lint, C, nutshell
SUPPLIERS:
    E-mail: ... uunet!ora!nuts
    Phone#: [phone]-NUTS
COMMENTS:
    The lint program checker has proven itself time and again to be
    one of the best tools for finding portability problems and
    certain types of coding errors in C programs.  This book
    introduces you to lint, guides you through running it on your
    programs and helps you to interpret lint's output.

TITLE: The C Answer Book
AUTHOR: Tondo, Clovis L.
AUTHOR: Gimpel, Scott E.
SUBJECT: C programming
PUBLISHER: Prentice-Hall
DATE: 1985
PAGES: 209
ISBN: 0-13-109877-2
APPROX_COST: 21.00
KEYWORDS: K&R answers
COMMENTS
    This book provides the answers to the exercises found in K&R.  I
    believe that a second edition of this book has also been recently
    published corresponding with the 2nd edition of K&R.

TITLE: Computer Security Basics
AUTHOR: Russell, Deborah
AUTHOR: Gangemi Sr., G.T.
SUBJECT: Computer Security
PUBLISHER: O'Reilly and Associates
DATE: 1992
PAGES: 464
ISBN: 0-937175-71-4
APPROX_COST: 29.95
KEYWORDS: Security, UNIX
SUGGESTED_BY: "Cliff Stoll" <[e-mail]>
SUPPLIERS:
    [e-mail]
    1-800-DEV-NUTS
COMMENTS
        For computer managers who use Orange Book sytems -- trusted
        computer systems.  A lot about government standards and what
        it means to have a certified secure system.

TITLE: C Primer Plus Revised Edition
AUTHOR: Waite, Mitchell
AUTHOR: Prata, Stephen
AUTHOR: Martin, Donald
SUBJECT: C programming
PUBLISHER: Howard W. Samms & Company
DATE: 1987
PAGES: 558
ISBN: 0-672-22582-4
APPROX_COST: 23.95
SUGGESTED_BY: "Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E" <[e-mail]>
COMMENTS
    An excellent beginners guide to C programming. I found out about this
    book through a vendor's training class on C, where they used it as the
    textbook.

TITLE: C Programming Guide, 3rd Ed.
AUTHOR: Purdum, J.J.
SUBJECT: C Programming
PUBLISHER: Que Corporation
DATE: 1988
PAGES: 456
ISBN: 0-88022-356-1
LCCN: 88-61496
OCLC: 18865012

TITLE: The C Programmer's Handbook
AUTHOR: Bolsky, Morris I.
SUBJECT: Reference
PUBLISHER: Prentice-Hall
DATE: 1985
PAGES: 84
ISBN: 0-13-110073-4
APPROX_COST: 22.95
KEYWORDS: C Programming
COMMENTS
    This is a handbook for experience programmers, not a book for reading.
    Information is intended as a quickie reference and is not that
    detailed.

TITLE: The C Programming Language, First Edition
AUTHOR: Kernigan, Brian W.
AUTHOR: Ritchie, Dennis M.
SUBJECT: C Programming
PUBLISHER: Prentice-Hall
DATE: 1978
PAGES: 228
ISBN: 0-13-110163-3
APPROX_COST: 27.00
KEYWORDS: C, UNIX, K&R C
SUGGESTED_BY: Mitch Wright <[e-mail]>
COMMENTS
    ** The Original Bible of C programming **
    "... a book that ocntains a tutorial introduction to get new userss
    started as soon as possible, separate chapters on major features
    and a reference manual"

TITLE: The C Programming Language, Second Edition
AUTHOR: Kernigan, Brian W.
AUTHOR: Ritchie, Dennis M.
SUBJECT: C Programming
PUBLISHER: Prentice-Hall
DATE: 1988
PAGES: 272
ISBN: 0-13-110362-8
APPROX_COST: 28.00
SUGGESTED_BY: "Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E" <[e-mail]>
COMMENTS
    The Bible of C programming

TITLE: C Programmer's Library, 2nd Ed.
AUTHOR: Purdum, J.J.
SUBJECT: C language
PUBLISHER: Que Corporation
DATE: 1985
PAGES: 319
ISBN: 0-88022-157-7
LCCN: 85-60689
OCLC: 12819701

TITLE: C Programmer's Toolkit
AUTHOR: Purdum, Jack J.
SUBJECT: C language
PUBLISHER: Que Corporation
DATE: 1989
PAGES: 350
ISBN: 0-88022-457-6
LCCN: 89-61069
OCLC: 21130331

TITLE: The C Puzzle Book: Puzzles for the C Programming Language, 2nd Ed.
AUTHOR: Feuer, Alan R.
SUBJECT: C programming
PUBLISHER: Prentice-Hall
DATE: 1982
PAGES: 173
ISBN: 0-13-109934-5 HBK
ISBN: 0-13-109926-4 PBK
APPROX_COST: 26.00
COMMENTS
    Exactly what the title indicates.  The puzzles are organized by
    chapter: basic arithmetic operators, assignment operators, logic and
    increment operators, bitwise operators, relational and conditional
    operators, operator precedence and evaluation.  The answers for all of
    the puzzles are also provided.  This is an excellent way to learn some
    of the more advanced expressions that can be concocted with C.

TITLE: C Self-Study Guide
AUTHOR: Purdum, J.J.
SUBJECT: C language
PUBLISHER: Que Corporation
DATE: 1985
PAGES: 249
ISBN: 0-88022-149-6
OCLC: 12790605
B-NO: 411153F

TITLE: C Standard Library
AUTHOR: Purdum, Jack J.
AUTHOR: Leslie, Timothy C
SUBJECT: C language
PUBLISHER: Que Corporation
DATE: 1987
PAGES: 437
ISBN: 0-88022-279-4
LCCN: 86-62528
OCLC: 16411542

TITLE: C Traps and Pitfalls
AUTHOR: Koenig, Andrew
SUBJECT: C programming
PUBLISHER: Addison-Wesley
DATE: 1988
PAGES: 147
ISBN: 0-201-17928-8
APPROX_COST: 17.50
COMMENTS
    Andrew published a BTL Technical Memorandum by this title several
    years back. Later it was published as a Technical Report.  It has now
    been expanded into a book.  I read the TR and it was excellent.  I
    just recently finished the book and would recommend it to anyone who
    uses C.

TITLE: The C and Unix Dictionary
AUTHOR: Christian, Kaare
SUBJECT: Definitions of terms
PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
DATE: 1988
PAGES: 216
ISBN: 0-471-60929-3 HBK
ISBN: 0-471-60931-5 PBK
APPROX_COST: 24.95
COMMENTS
    Definitions of over 1000 terms in the C and Unix lexicon.

TITLE: C: A Reference Manual, 2nd Edition
AUTHOR: Harbison, Samuel P.
AUTHOR: Steele Jr., Guy L.
SUBJECT: C Programming
PUBLISHER: Prentice-Hall
DATE: 1987
PAGES: 404
ISBN: 0-13-109810-1 HBK
ISBN: 0-13-109802-0 PBK
APPROX_COST: 31.95
COMMENTS
    An excellent book on C.  It is not really an introductory level book,
    and is a great companion to K&R (2nd Ed.).  Both this book and K&R
    (2nd Ed.) cover the draft-proposed ANSI standards.  Where H&S really
    stands out is in the sections that cover the UNIX library calls.  If
    you have ever struggled with any of printf or scanf family of library
    calls in trying to figure out the conversion rules in the format
    string, this book is the answer.

TITLE: Compiler Design in C
AUTHOR: Holub, Allen I.
SUBJECT: Compiler Design
PUBLISHER: Prentice-Hall
DATE: 1990
PAGES: 924
ISBN:0-13-155045-4
KEYWORDS: C Compilers, YACC
SUGGESTED_BY: Mitch Wright <[e-mail]>
COMMENTS
    Great book!  And lots of source examples to boot.

TITLE: Computers Under Attack
AUTHOR: Denning, Peter   [editor]
PUBLISHER: ACM Press / Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
DATE: 1990
PAGES: 554
ISBN: 0-201-53067-8
APPROX_COST: 35.00
SUGGESTED_BY: "Cliff Stoll" <[e-mail]>
COMMENTS
        A collection of articles about computer security.
        Good history of networks and an introduction to the internet,
        with emphasis on security problems.  Reviews of the internet
        worm of 1988, computer viruses, and the nature of openness
        in a networked community.

TITLE: Computerization and Controversy
AUTHOR: Dunlop & Kling   [editor]
PUBLISHER: Academic Press
DATE: 1991
PAGES: 758
ISBN: 0-12-224356-0
APPROX_COST: 65.00
SUGGESTED_BY: "Cliff Stoll" <[e-mail]>
COMMENTS
        A splendid collection of articles on the social impact of
        computers.  Check out "The Strange Case of the Electronic
        Lover" (from Ms. Magazine), or "Safety-Critical Computing"
        or "Social Analysis of Computing".  Technically solid and
        socially important writing in here.

TITLE: The Cuckoo's Egg
AUTHOR: Stoll, Cliff
PUBLISHER: Pocketbooks, New York City
DATE: 1989, 1990
PAGES: 356
ISBN: 0-671-72688-9
APPROX_Cost: Paperback - $5.95  (cheap at half the price)
HARDBACK:  Doubleday, ISBN 0-385-24946-2, $20 (acid free!)
SUGGESTED_BY: "Cliff Stoll" <[e-mail]>  [see disclaimer]
COMMENTS
     This is the true story of catching a spy over the Internet.

     A hacker broke into a Berkeley astronomy computer, then
     entered dozens of military computers through networks.
     Here's how to catch a spy, without much help from the
     FBI, the CIA, and the NSA.

     Six months on the NY Times best-seller list,
     two weeks on the Usenet most-flamed about list.

     "A spy story for the 90's -- and it's all true!" - Tom Clancy
     "A nonfiction book that reads like a Le Carre spy novel"- Seattle Times
     "A gripping spy thriller"  -- New York Times Book Review
     "Indiana Jones & Tron, with a dash of Berkeley" -- William Press
     "Fast-moving  - read it straight through in one evening" -- Evelyn Leeper
     "Not bad"   - Cliff's Mom

     Disclaimer:  I caught the hacker, wrote the book, and
     stand to earn two bits if you buy a copy. - Cliff Stoll

TITLE: Cyberpunk
AUTHOR: Hafner and Markoff
PUBLISHER: Simon and Schuster
DATE: 1991
PAGES: 362
ISBN: 0-671-68322-5
APPROX_Cost: 22.00
SUGGESTED_BY: "Cliff Stoll" <[e-mail]>
COMMENTS
        This book tells of the computing counterculture -- the
        underground of computing.  Three people who became known
        for their exploits:  Kevin Mitnick, who obsessively broke
        into DEC systems in Southern California;  Hans Hubner, who
        was a part of the German group that stole American military
        information and sold it to the KGB; and Robert T. Morris,
        who wrote the Internet worm of 1988.  Perhaps the title of
        this book is misleading, but the subtitle isn't:  Outlaws
        and hackers on the Computer Frontier

TITLE: DOS Meets UNIX
AUTHOR: Dougherty, Dale
AUTHOR: O'Reilly, Tim
SUBJECT: Introduction
PUBLISHER: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
DATE: 1988
PAGES: 148
ISBN: 0-937175-21-8
APPROX_COST: 15.00
KEYWORDS: Nutshell Handbook
SUPPLIERS
    E-mail: ... uunet!ora!nuts
    Phone#: [phone]-NUTS
COMMENTS
    Describes the solutions available for integrating DOS and UNIX.  It
    also briefly introduces UNIX for DOS users.