These books are recommended for those who want to read more about the UNIX operating system, related software, or procedures. You should know which particular UNIX operating system you will be using before buying books, since there are many versions of UNIX (such as System V, BSD, Xenix, Linux, ULTRIX, AIX, etc.). Also, some books on the C language are only for certain compilers, such as Microsoft C or Turbo C, and will not be fully applicable to other C compilers.

Introductory UNIX Books

Getting Started with UNIX and X

Torbjorn Andreasson and Jan Skarsholm. Addison-Wesley, 1990.

This covers basic, intermediate, and advanced UNIX topics, including various shells, UNIX versions, and X highlights.

Introducing the UNIX System

Henry McGilton and Rachel Morgan. McGraw-Hill, 1983.

This is an introductory text for new UNIX users.

Learning the UNIX Operating System

Grace Todino and John Strang. O'Reilly & Associates, 1994.

This is a concise introduction to System V UNIX and to the X Window System, aimed at a nontechnical audience.

Life with UNIX: A Guide for Everyone

Don Libes and Sandy Ressler. Prentice-Hall, 1989.

This is a good overview of UNIX history and folklore; it is not an introduction to UNIX commands. Some material in this book is difficult to find in other sources.

MH & xmh: E-mail for Users & Programmers

Jerry Peek. O'Reilly & Associates, 1991.

This book introduces the MH message-handling system and its X Window System interface, xmh. The book covers the features and operation of MH and its configuration, and it includes a "tour" through the program, giving many examples of its use.

Peter Norton's Guide to UNIX

Peter Norton and Harley Hahn. Bantam Books, 1991.

This book is useful for someone coming to UNIX from a DOS background. Although quite long (549 pages), it contains not just examples, but some philosophy and rules of thumb that make it interesting reading.

UNIX for VMS Users

Philip Bourne. Butterworth, 1989.

Written for VMS users, this introduction to UNIX covers basic concepts, command procedures, shell scripts, text processing, and network communications. Tasks described are compared to VMS counterparts, when possible, and the appendix includes cross- reference tables.

UNIX in a Nutshell: Berkeley Edition

UNIX in a Nutshell: System V Edition

O'Reilly & Associates, 1990, 1992.

These are table-oriented guides to BSD and System V. If you like to look things up in tables, you'll like these books. They contain reference information for sh, csh, ksh, vi, make, and sccs.

Text Editing and Processing

LaTeX: A Documentation Preparation System

Leslie Lamport. Addison-Wesley, 1986.

The standard work for LaTeX, the set of macros that make it easy to use the TeX formatting language.

Learning GNU Emacs

Debra Cameron and Bill Rosenblatt. O'Reilly & Associates, 1991.

An excellent Emacs tutorial, this book covers base editor commands, special environments for use with text formatters and programming languages, customization, Emacs Lisp programming, and a convenient quick-reference section.

Learning the vi Editor

Linda Lamb. O'Reilly & Associates, 1988.

This is a thorough introduction to the vi text editor.

TeX for the Impatient

Paul W. Abrahams et al. Addison-Wesley, 1990.

A useful and practical handbook for quickly finding answers to questions about the TeX formatting language. It contains complete descriptions of TeX concepts, commands, and examples- arranged for easy access.

The TeXbook

Donald Knuth. Addison-Wesley, 1992.

The standard work for the TeX formatting language.

UNIX System V Documenter's Workbench Technical Discussion and Reference Manual

AT&T. Prentice-Hall, 1989.

Covers in detail the nroff/troff program, the tbl preprocessor, and the mm macro package.

UNIX System V Documenter's Workbench User's Guide

AT&T. Prentice-Hall, 1989.

A tutorial discussion of nroff/troff and its associated preprocessors and macro packages.

Networking Topics

Computer Networks

Second edition. Andrew S. Tanenbaum. Prentice-Hall, 1989.

An excellent introductory textbook.

The Internet Companion: A Beginner's Guide To Global Networking

Tracy LaQuey, with Jeanne C. Ryer. Addison-Wesley, 1992.

This book helps answer the familiar question "What can I do with the Internet?". It contains descriptions of the Internet and its history; how to use basic network tools such as FTP, TELNET, and electronic mail; how to hook up to the Internet; and even coupons good for discounts for Internet services.

Internetworking with TCP/IP: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture

Douglas E. Comer. Prentice-Hall, 1991.

Volume I of a three-volume series, this is an overview and detailed introduction to TCP/IP, including discussions of network technologies, addresses, routing, protocols, and applications. The other two volumes have subtitles: Design, Implementation, and Internals and Client-Server Programming and Applications

UNIX Network Programming

W. Richard Stevens. Prentice-Hall, 1990.

A wide-ranging treatment of networking software in modern UNIX implementations, the book contains scores of program examples and is indispensable reading for those developing network software.

The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog

Ed Krol. O'Reilly & Associates, 1994.

This book is highly recommended for both novices and experts. The "User's Guide" portion is an excellent overview of the Internet and its current services, such as electronic mail, file transfers, interactive connections, USENET news, Gopher, Archie, WAIS, and WWW browsers. The "Catalog" portion is an exten sive listing of Internet service providers, including descriptions of the methods used to gain access to each service.

Advanced UNIX and Programming Topics

Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment

W. Richard Stevens. Addison-Wesley, 1992.

This work of over 700 pages contains about 10,000 lines of sample C code. It describes the C system call interface and system libraries under both System V Release 4 and 4.3 BSD versions of UNIX.

The Annotated C++ Reference Manual

Margaret Ellis and Bjarne Stroustrup. Addison-Wesley, 1990.

This is a complete reference manual that has been adopted by ANSI as the base document for a C++ standard.

The C Programming Language

Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. First and second edition. Prentice-Hall, 1978 and 1988.

This is an introductory book on programming in C. Use the first edition for older C compilers installed on the Computation Center's UNIX systems. The second edition describes the ANSI- standard version of C (GNU C and Sun's ANSI C).

The C++ Programming Language

Bjarne Stroustrup. Addison-Wesley, 1991.

This is a reference guide for the object-oriented language C++.

The Craft of Text Editing: Emacs for the World

Craig A. Finseth. Springer-Verlag, 1991.

This interesting book describes the issues of writing a text editor. The example is Emacs, but many topics such as string searching and I/O are touched upon as well.

The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System

John S. Quarterman et al. Addison-Wesley, 1988.

This discusses concepts, data structures, and algorithms used in 4.3BSD UNIX implementations.

The Design of the UNIX Operating System

Maurice J. Bach. Prentice-Hall, 1986.

Discusses concepts, data structures, and algorithms used in System V UNIX implementations.

The GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual

Bill Lewis, Dan LaLiberte, and the GNU Manual Group. Free Software Foundation, 1990.

This is a reference manual for Lisp programmers who are writing functions for Emacs.

GNU Emacs Manual

Sixth edition, version 18. Richard Stallman. Free Software Foundation, 1987. Available online via anonymous FTP from ftp.cc.utexas.edu.

This is the original Emacs reference manual. Complete and comprehensive, it is not a tutorial document.

GNU Emacs: Unix Text Editing and Programming

Michael A. Schoonover, John S. Bowie, and William R. Arnold. Addison-Wesley, 1992.

This manual has a particularly good section on Emacs Lisp programming.

Learning the Korn Shell

Bill Rosenblatt. O'Reilly & Associates, 1993.

A thorough introduction to the korn shell, both as a user interface and as a programming language.

Managing Projects with Make

Andrew Oram and Steve Talbott. O'Reilly & Associates, 1991.

Describes the use of make to simplify the process of maintaining a software project by recording relationships between files and automatically updating files as needed.

Programming PERL

Larry Wall and Randal L. Schwartz. O'Reilly & Associates, 1990. The authoritative book on programming in PERL, the Practical Extraction and Report Language. This language combines features from C and from a number of UNIX utilities into a single powerful language.

Software Tools

Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger. Addison-Wesley, 1976.

This book explains structured programming in RATFOR to show how to build software tools the UNIX way.

UNIX for FORTRAN Programmers

Mike Loukides. O'Reilly & Associates, 1990.

This work assumes some knowledge of FORTRAN but not of UNIX or of C.

The UNIX Programming Environment

Brian W. Kernighan and Robert Pike. Prentice-Hall, 1984.

This book includes an introduction to UNIX and covers UNIX philosophy and programming.

X User Tools

Linda Mui and Valerie Quercia. O'Reilly & Associates, 1994.

Presents a range of tools to help you configure your X environment and contains many tips for making X more productive.

UNIX System Administration

Essential System Administration

AEleen Frisch. O'Reilly & Associates, 1991.

This gives complete information on UNIX system administration for both BSD and System V UNIX. It also includes information on system administration for AIX.

Managing UUCP & USENET

Tenth edition. Tim O'Reilly and Grace Todino. O'Reilly & Associates, 1992.

The essential book for configuring and operating a UUCP and USENET news site on UNIX systems. One of the few readable and complete explanations of the intricacies of setting up and operating UUCP and USENET news.

Practical UNIX Security

Simson Garfinkel and Gene Spafford. O'Reilly & Associates, 1991.

Describes UNIX security basics and network security and suggests how to keep intruders out of your system, how to tell if they've gotten in, how to clean up after them, and even how to prosecute them. Filled with practical scripts, special techniques, and warnings.

Solaris System Administrator's Guide

Janice Winsor. Ziff-Davis Press, 1993.

Covers the procedures used to administer Sun Microsystems computers running Solaris, with task-oriented descriptions of booting, configuring hardware, printing, creating users, and networking. Also contains specific transition information for system managers migrating from SunOS 4.x to Solaris.

System Performance Tuning

Mike Loukides. O'Reilly & Associates, 1991.

Is your UNIX machine running slowly? This book is one of the only references to the complex topic of performance tuning.

UNIX System Administration Handbook

Evi Nemeth et al. Prentice-Hall, 1995.

A thorough tour of virtually every task a UNIX system administrator must perform. Discusses both Berkeley and AT&T versions of UNIX, but is particularly useful for those running a BSD version.