From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] First book on Unix for general readership
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 10:17:39 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2004061009470.36443@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A36FF0A-7617-4B26-B4F3-FC183BF9A7FC@ronnatalie.com>
[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 767 bytes --]
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020, Ronald Natalie wrote:
> The Lions book wasn’t really published back in the day. It was only
> targetted at his students in Australia (though copies leaked out).
Leaked out? Apparently it's the most photocopied book in the world! I
had the originals but sadly lost them in a house move (along with all
issues of AUUGN).
> The manuals aren’t really a book (and again, they weren’t really
> published as a book) and most of the prose on UNIX was more in the form
> of articles than an entire book.
I still reckon that the manpage format is perfect at what it does: telling
you what you need to know right away without going through various menu
levels (and that's not a dig at "info" but just an observation in
general).
-- Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-06 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-04 15:05 markus schnalke
2020-04-04 15:48 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-04-14 15:27 ` Steve Mynott
2020-04-14 20:32 ` Warner Losh
2020-04-14 22:03 ` Warner Losh
2020-04-04 16:12 ` Michael Kjörling
2020-04-04 16:45 ` markus schnalke
2020-04-05 23:57 ` Ronald Natalie
2020-04-06 0:08 ` Larry McVoy
2020-04-06 0:27 ` Clem Cole
2020-04-06 0:46 ` Michael Usher via TUHS
2020-04-06 1:41 ` Clem Cole
2020-04-06 1:46 ` Michael Usher via TUHS
2020-04-06 14:51 ` ron
2020-04-08 22:23 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-04-06 0:17 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2020-04-06 14:54 ` ron
2020-04-06 14:54 ` ron
2020-04-07 10:42 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-04-08 22:16 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-04-04 17:32 ` Warner Losh
2020-04-04 22:41 Doug McIlroy
2020-04-14 2:13 Doug McIlroy
2020-04-14 5:30 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2020-04-14 5:38 ` Warner Losh
2020-04-14 15:10 Doug McIlroy
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2004061009470.36443@aneurin.horsfall.org \
--to=dave@horsfall.org \
--cc=tuhs@tuhs.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).