
If you are new to UNIX, this concise introduction will tell you just what you need to get started and no more. Why wade through a 600-page book when you can begin working productively in a matter of minutes?Topics covered include: Logging in and logging outContents include: Window systems (especially X/Motif)Managing UNIX files and directoriesSending and receiving mailRedirecting input/outputPipes and filtersBackground processingThis book is the most effective introduction to UNIX in print. The third edition provides increased coverage of window systems and networking. It's a handy book for someone just starting with UNIX, as well as someone who encounters a UNIX system as a "visitor" via remote login over the Internet.
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Grace Todino-Gonguet is currently residing in Muscat,Oman. While working as a technical writer at O'Reilly Media, Inc., Grace was one of the original authors of the Nutshell Handbooks(R), Learning the Unix Operating System , Managing UUCP and Usenet and Using UUCP and Usenet. She now writes mainly nonfiction articles for children's magazines like Faces, AppleSeeds, and Crinkles. Her first fiction book for children, Halimah and the Snake and other Omani Folktales , will be released in October 2008 by Stacey International (London).
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