Dear Sir,
I recently came across a copy of W Richard Stevens' "Advanced
Programming in the Unix Environment". Page 20 says, "We asume
throughout this text that you have a copy of the unix manuals fro your
system".

As a matter of fact, I do not possess a Unix system, neither does my
college. but we still have to learn about UNIX through Stevens' book.
I was wondering if anybody could give me the ISBN of this book that
Stevens was referring to.

I could then perhaps make sense of Stevens' book.

I would be utterly thankful for any help.

Yours truly.

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nishsr@gmail.com wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> I recently came across a copy of W Richard Stevens' "Advanced
> programming in the Unix Environment". Page 20 says, "We asume
> throughout this text that you have a copy of the unix manuals fro your
> system".
>
> As a matter of fact, I do not possess a Unix system, neither does my
> college. but we still have to learn about UNIX through Stevens' book.
> I was wondering if anybody could give me the ISBN of this book that
> Stevens was referring to.
>
Various Unix man pages are available on the web (docs.sun.com for
example), just google for a command.

If you want to learn, stick your variant of choice on a spare PC or in a
VmWare virtual machine.

--
Ian Collins.

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nishsr@gmail.com wrote:

> I recently came across a copy of W Richard Stevens' "Advanced
> programming in the Unix Environment".
>
> I could then perhaps make sense of Stevens' book.

I have got the same book. Which bit are you having difficulty with?

Note the from the title "Advanced Programming", presumably you are already a
n
intermediate level programmer.

Regards,

Mark.

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nishsr@gmail.com writes:
> I recently came across a copy of W Richard Stevens' "Advanced
> programming in the Unix Environment". Page 20 says, "We asume
> throughout this text that you have a copy of the unix manuals fro your
> system".
>
> As a matter of fact, I do not possess a Unix system, neither does my
> college. but we still have to learn about UNIX through Stevens'
> book.

Assuming this is not supposed to be a joke (how can you possibly learn
about programming for $anything without being able to actually program
$anything?), I'd recommend that you find yourself some otherwise unused
PC and install one of the free BSD-variants on it (that would be
'UNIX(*)' as Stevens is referring to it). The manuals mentioned above
are usually distributed with the system and can be read 'online'
using the man-command.

A web accessible copy is here:

<URL:http://www.freebsd.org/docs/man.html>

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Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> nishsr@gmail.com writes: 
[vbcol=seagreen]
> I'd recommend that you find yourself some otherwise unused
> PC and install one of the free BSD-variants on it (that would be
> 'UNIX(*)' as Stevens is referring to it). The manuals mentioned above
> are usually distributed with the system and can be read 'online'
> using the man-command.

On a historical note, I'm only just barely old enough to have seen
these once, but if I remember/understand correctly, it was once
quite common for Unix systems to be distributed with a big shelf
of printed manuals.  Or a gigantic desk-mounted 3-foot-wide binder
type thing.

That could explain why people sometimes refer to the online
documentation with terminology that seems more appropriate for
a paper book.

- Logan

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nishsr@gmail.com wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> I recently came across a copy of W Richard Stevens' "Advanced
> programming in the Unix Environment". Page 20 says, "We asume
> throughout this text that you have a copy of the unix manuals fro your
> system".
>
> As a matter of fact, I do not possess a Unix system, neither does my
> college. but we still have to learn about UNIX through Stevens' book.
> I was wondering if anybody could give me the ISBN of this book that
> Stevens was referring to.
>
> I could then perhaps make sense of Stevens' book.
>
> I would be utterly thankful for any help.
>
> Yours truly.
>
The official Unix manuals may be read online at:

<http://www.uhnix.org/version3/>

They are free (as in beer) but you have to register.

Robert

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On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 01:08:02 +0000, nishs wrote:

> Dear Sir,
> I recently came across a copy of W Richard Stevens' "Advanced [snip]

http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification/

contains the specs (i.e. elaborate man pages) for every Unix system call

-paul

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Robert Harris <robert.f.harris@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
> nishsr@gmail.com wrote: 
> The official Unix manuals may be read online at:
>
> <http://www.uhnix.org/version3/>
>
> They are free (as in beer) but you have to register.

s/uhnis/unix/

--
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San Diego Supercomputer Center             <*>  <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
-- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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Keith Thompson wrote:
> Robert Harris <robert.f.harris@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:
 
>
> s/uhnis/unix/

s/uhnis/uhnix/

- Logan

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Logan Shaw  <lshaw-usenet@austin.rr.com> wrote:
>On a historical note, I'm only just barely old enough to have seen
>these once, but if I remember/understand correctly, it was once
>quite common for Unix systems to be distributed with a big shelf
>of printed manuals.

Yup!

I once possessed an AT&T 3B2 Unix PC that came with about 70 pounds of
manuals.  And we had the walls of books at school, too.  They made for
great reading on those graveyard shifts as computer operator (jeez, the
things students will do for $9/hr... 

-Beej

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