Learning UNIX

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Summary: excellent introductroy book
Review: For a beginner, this is an excellent introductory book. I specially like the disk which will enable a crude unix system to be available on the PC. Of course, more examples and excercises could be made available. I highly recommend it to all beginners.

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Summary: This book is not good any more
Review: I bought this book according to those posted reviews. When I try to install the Software it don't work (disk failure). Publisher should put a CD-ROM beside this Diskett. Without MKS utilities software this book is totaly worthless. Because the whole concept of buying this book is to work on PC (on DOS or windows not in Unix box).

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Summary: Good Book for beginners who don't have UNIX.
Review: If you don't have UNIX, buy this book. It was made to run under dos or windows 3.1, but it runs under windows 95 good enough to learn the basics of UNIX.(Which would be all you would ever use unless you are a UNIX administrator.) I was a software tester and this is all I needed.

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Summary: Great for people just starting with Unix
Review: In contrast to many Unix reference books, this one demonstrates usage of the language to accomplish common tasks. It comes with a set of Unix utilities which run under DOS or Windows (3.x) with which to practice. However, they don't run well under Windows 95 with its file system. Some of the material suffers from lack of good examples, such as how to use SED to edit files.

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Summary: Great for people just starting with Unix
Review: This is a great book if you know nothing about Unix. It comes with a simulator program that is pretty good. It will run on almost any windows operating system. So if you are just starting with unix this is the book for you!