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Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 21:39:07 -0800
From: randy@halcyon.halcyon.com (C. Brandon Gresham, Jr.)

>I'm looking for a cheap Unix primer because my technical writing courses are
>based on using the Internet, and I've found that Tracey LaQuey's _Internet
>Companion_ is an inexpensive way to introduce students to Internet resources,
>but it contains only minimal exposure to Unix itself.  A combined Internet and
>Unix book would be ideal, but I've only seen Ed Krol's _Whole Internet Guide_
>which seems to bury the Unix instruction, for my purposes, under layers of

This comes from a person with substantial computer experience. BUT I
returned to the States in 1992 and discovered the Internet. I have had an
interesting journey "bootstrapping' my way onto the Internet. I have
sampled about a half-dozen books on UNIX from\through the local library
system. From my view point as a UNIX neophyte the best of them was "The
Waite Group's UNIX Primer Plus" published by Howard Sams & Co. After
several weeks with that at my side, trying virtually everything they laid
out I've graduated to the book I mistakenly purchased by title alone: "UNIX
in a Nutshell" from O'Reilly & Assoc.

Ed Krol's book was a Godsend on the Internet side. For me, as a beginner,
it is a clear win over Tracey LaQuey's and the others I've encountered. I
don't know how your students are connected to the Internet, but I had no
problem using Krol's book "straight out of the box" for my situation where
I dial-up from my Mac on a serial line into a UNIX box. (Perhaps a one
sheet hand-out on file copying and directory traversing, another on mail
and another on the text editor (shudder) of choice could handle the UNIX
end.)

Can't find my copy - or the location from which I ftp'd it - at the moment
but there is a list of UNIX books available 'out there.'

Good Luck!
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Randy

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