And, as a matter of interest, is there a book for V6?

Paul

*Paul Riley*




On Tue, 26 Oct 2021 at 06:28, Scot Jenkins <sj@sdf.org> wrote:

> joseph turco <italian.pepe.32@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I was wondering if there exists a book on Unix administration,
> specifically
> > for v7. I have the Unix programmers book already.
>
> Introducing the UNIX System, (c) 1983, ISBN 0-07-045001-3
> by Henry McGilton and Rachel Morgan
>
> The book covers V7 and is a general intro to UNIX.
> It has one chapter on administration near the end
> of the book.  It covers very basic stuff:
>
> * setting the date
> * startup/shutdown
> * users and groups, su command
> * file systems (mkfs, mount, umount, fsck, icheck, ncheck)
> * adding devices (mknod)
> * dump, restor, tar
>
> Overall though this is still a great book on UNIX in general,
> even today.  Great tutorials on ed, sed, ex, vi, nroff/troff,
> and ms macros make it worthwhile to own.
>
> scot
>