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SCO Companion: The Essential Guide for Users and System Administrators

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This book talks about just about every aspect of the SCO operating system - but at a high level. It is helpful in understanding how files and process interact with each other but if you actually want to use this information at the keyboard of your SCO system, look elsewere.

This book details a lot of the inner workings of SCO's OpenServer release 5. It describes in plenty of detail, the why and how's to SCO's OpenServer product. I would highly recommend this book to anyone interested in SCO OpenServer.

Mr. Mohr - I originally got your book 2 years ago when I was thrown into a SCO admin position. This book has made my experience w/ SCO not only pleasant but rewarding at the same time. If there is a more thorough, better written text on the market I know not of it.

Few computer books offer what they promise; SCO Companion does this and much more, delving into areas of the Unix OS that most other books don't even touch upon. From how Unix works, to why, and everything in-between, this is one of those rare finds in the technical-book world; one you will enjoy reading just for the enjoyment of it.

If you are in search of a large, impressive looking book, with pages and pages of hard to find information mixed with wordy dialog, this is the book for you. If however you are in search a book to assist you with the day to day issues faced administering SCO UNIX your money is much better spent on SCO Unix in a Nutshell or UNIX System Administration Handbook 3rd edition.

Just the basis about SCO and admin. If you don't know anything about computer and SCO, this is book is good for you.

As a systems analyst and administrator of a multi platform environment (AIX, SCO, NT, NOVELL) I am constantly on the look for complete references for the different platforms to aid not only myself but my department... for SCO this is the best I've seen.

Not only explains how-to make the administration stuff, it also explain what files are changed and how that files affect the OS...

Great for all who wish to know how the SCO Os makes interaction with the configuration files...