 Books: A User's Report
May 2001
by Elizabeth Zinkann
This month's column includes reviews of a Solaris reference, a detailed hardware book, a book on XML, and one on Macromedia's Flash 5. Specifically, the books reviewed include: Solaris 8 Essential Reference by John P. Mulligan (New Riders); The Book of SCSI, Second Edition by Gary Field, Peter Ridge, et al. (No Starch Press); Learning XML by Erik T. Ray (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.); and Foundation Flash 5 by Sham Bhangal, Amanda Farr, and Patrick Rey (Friends of ED).
Solaris 8 Essential Reference
John P. Mulligan
New Riders
ISBN 0-7357-1007-4
346 Pages
$34.99
http://www.newriders.com
A good command reference for any system can make the difference between a smoothly running system and an inefficient one. John Mulligan, author of the Solaris Essential Reference (New Riders, ISBN 0-7357-0023-0), has updated his excellent command resource to include Solaris 8 and its features. This newly expanded version not only covers Solaris 8, but also can be used for Solaris 2.2 through 2.6, plus Solaris 7. Mulligan features the information through four separate sections: a General Usage Reference, a Developer Reference, Administration and Maintenance Task Reference, and the Appendices.
The first section contains chapters on Text Utilities, Shell Scripting, Process Control, and Network Clients and Utilities. The following part addresses the particular needs of developers and includes information on Compilers/Interpreters, Programming Utilities, and Debugging. The central part of the book, Part III, Administration and Maintenance Task Reference, details Startup and Shutdown, User Management, Network Administration, Filesystems, Security, and System Configuration and Tuning.
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