Unix Unleashed: Internet Edition (Hardcover)

by Robin Burk (Author), David B. Horvath (Author)

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The first edition of Unix Unleashed provided a thick, comprehensive guide to the basic tools of the Unix trade, covering everything from system administration to the windowing system to the compiler environments. The guide also featured information on other tools, such as the vi editor, the command shells, the AWK, PERL, C and C++ languages, and instructions on text formatting, version control, and security features.

The current edition improves on earlier releases with a beefy section on Internet technologies--the HTTP protocol, Web servers, CGI programming, MIME, and even a basic guide to HTML. Sections addressing specific issues with particular implementations of Unix, including Advanced Interactive Executive (AIX), Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD), Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, and SVR4 round out this handy reference guide. The book also includes a jargon glossary and copious FAQ document in case any or all of these topics are completely unfamiliar. Finally, the book includes a CD-ROM with a full binary release version of FreeBSD 2.2.5, Linux Red Hat 4.2 release for x86, Perl 5.x, a host of utilities, and an electronic version of both this book and its companion System Administrator's Edition.

Product Description
UNIX Unleashed, Internet Edition and UNIX Unleashed, System Administrator's Edition are an in-depth examination of the UNIX operating system. Written by experts, they include real-world examples, definitions, tips and tricks. Between them, these two volumes cover the specifics of the most popular UNIX variants and the use of UNIX as a full-fledged Internet server platform.

• Complete and comprehensive; no other book has this much breadth, depth and real-world examples
• This edition focuses on the Internet components of UNIX, enabling the reader to make UNIX his/her launch-pad for interactive Internet services, with a jump-start on security
• Teaches the reader to program UNIX with Awk, Perl, C and C++, and to extend these skills to CGI web development
• The user will master graphical user interfaces from both the end-user and programmer perspectives

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 1114 pages
• Publisher: Sams; Har/Dsk edition (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0672312050
• ISBN-13: 978-0672312052
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 8 x 2.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,411,676 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fanstastic book for the new and experienced, January 28, 1999

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This book is the best book on UNIX programming around. Burk and Hovath have left no topic about programming in the UNIX environment untouched. Whether it is expaining the environment and usage of vi or emacs, or advanced CGI programming in Perl, C++, or shell, this book leaves nothing to be questioned. The organization is superb and the well documented index allows this book to be used as a reference time and time again. I would suggest this book to anybody who is working with programming in UNIX.