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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: Re: Summary: Looking for a good text on sh programming
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.151749.20312@mccc.edu>
Date: 29 Apr 91 15:17:49 GMT
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In article <1991Apr27.174921.27741@risky.ecs.umass.edu> breck@ganzer.ecs.umass.edu (Liam Breck) writes:
=Unix Applications Programming, Mastering the Shell
=by Ray Swartz
=Sams, div. of Macmillan Computer Publishing, 1990
=ISBN 0-672-22715-0
=Library of Congress # 90-61476
=
=editor's note: My experience with Sams books makes me want to avoid
=them.  Poor writing, typos in bad places, poor consideration of topic.

Have you looked at their recent output?  They are now using relatively
knowledgeable technical reviewers (ahem, ahem ;-)) and the writing I've
seen lately has been excellent.  Now, if you were talking about TAB
Books, I would not have commented.

Pete
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