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Summary: Author comments
Review: I wrote this book to teach UNIX to college students. The book is also directed to any reader who wishes to learn both Unix and Linux. My only complaint is that amazon.com lists the author as Wendy Abu-Rabi. She is a contributor only. I am the primary author. Tony Gaddis is the co-author. I hope amazon.com corrects this. Thank you. Jack Dent
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Summary: Disaster!
Review: I'm a Computer Science student and I have the great misfortune of using this book as our primary study tool, to study Unix, in my school. Even the teacher told us that he really regreted the fact that he made us buy this book, in fact the school is going to stop using the book next semester. The book is FILLED with errors. I'm totaly positive that the author didn't test what he wrote. I greatly advise you not to buy this book, unless you want to learn the wrong things?
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Summary: BEST book I've read so far !
Review: I'm not sure where you guys get your books but obviously you didn't read to far into this one. It is by far the most step-by-step unix book I've read. The book is clear and I had no problem understanding it. This man KNOWS what he's talking about because everything I learn from this book I try and sure enough it works perfectly. I was taught by Jack Dent's student. He's very knowledgable. I highly recommend this book to newbies and advanced unix/linux users.
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Summary: A Complete Success
Review: The authors had a definite end point in sight as they wrote this book. This book is good for people of all skill levels. The examples are all strong jumping off points for real world applications. A positive addition to my reference library.
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Summary: Still typos and bad screen prints in 2nd edition!
Review: The screen prints in this book are so poorly reproduced as to be completely unreadable and there are many, many typos. I am taking a class using this book as a text, and I spend more time trying to figure out what the typos are in the commands than I do learning how to use the software. I sent an email to the publisher regarding the fact that the screen prints, which are white characters of low resolution on a dark background, are nearly invisible; I received a reply that said they were sorry I was having trouble reading the graphics - nothing else - no apology - no statement that this is a recognized problem they would correct in a subsequent edition.My advice - find a book you can read that you won't have to waste your time proofreading and leave this one on the shelf!
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Summary: Important Topics Omitted; Too Many Errors
Review: This book is simply written and easy to read but it has serious
problems. I felt it deserved 1.5 stars. It has many figures of
monitor screens which are about 90% blank space. The text on the
screens is hard to read since it's fine white letters on black.
There is a lot of wasted space elsewhere.
Why doesn't it show long options using -- or the --help option?
Why were the important symbolic links omitted? Why didn't it show
how to ask for help with the vi editor? The list of important
information omitted goes on and on.
Fig. 2-1 fails to show the important /sbin and /var
directories. The use of the + option for the sort command is
obsolete according to the on-line manual page. The obsolete +
option uses and index origin of 0 which the book fails to
mention. The definition in the Glossary of Telnet as being
a "terminal emulation program" is incorrect. And so on ...
So I'm disappointed with the book and can't recommend it.
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Summary: Bad bad book!!!
Review: Very bad book, very unclear, and specially it's very unprecise. Errors are very common in this book. I wouldn't recommend this book to anybody, not even my worst enemy!
Rating:
Summary: Bad bad book!!!
Review: Very bad book, very unclear, and specially it's very unprecise. Errors are very common in this book. I wouldn't recommend this book to anybody, not even my worst enemy!
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