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- From: Jim Milles <MILLESJG@SLUVCA.SLU.EDU>
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:39:07 -0800
- From: randy@halcyon.halcyon.com (C. Brandon Gresham, Jr.)
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- >I'm looking for a cheap Unix primer because my technical writing courses are
- >based on using the Internet, and I've found that Tracey LaQuey's _Internet
- >Companion_ is an inexpensive way to introduce students to Internet resources,
- >but it contains only minimal exposure to Unix itself. A combined Internet and
- >Unix book would be ideal, but I've only seen Ed Krol's _Whole Internet Guide_
- >which seems to bury the Unix instruction, for my purposes, under layers of
-
- This comes from a person with substantial computer experience. BUT I
- returned to the States in 1992 and discovered the Internet. I have had an
- interesting journey "bootstrapping' my way onto the Internet. I have
- sampled about a half-dozen books on UNIX from\through the local library
- system. From my view point as a UNIX neophyte the best of them was "The
- Waite Group's UNIX Primer Plus" published by Howard Sams & Co. After
- several weeks with that at my side, trying virtually everything they laid
- out I've graduated to the book I mistakenly purchased by title alone: "UNIX
- in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly & Assoc.
-
- Ed Krol's book was a Godsend on the Internet side. For me, as a beginner,
- it is a clear win over Tracey LaQuey's and the others I've encountered. I
- don't know how your students are connected to the Internet, but I had no
- problem using Krol's book "straight out of the box" for my situation where
- I dial-up from my Mac on a serial line into a UNIX box. (Perhaps a one
- sheet hand-out on file copying and directory traversing, another on mail
- and another on the text editor (shudder) of choice could handle the UNIX
- end.)
-
- Can't find my copy - or the location from which I ftp'd it - at the moment
- but there is a list of UNIX books available 'out there.'
-
- Good Luck!
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- Randy
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- randy@halcyon.com* * * Data is not information is not knowledge is not
- wisdom.
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