Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!gwyn@BRL.ARPA From: gwyn@BRL.ARPA (VLD/VMB) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: BOOKS: Advanced UNIX(TM) Programming; Systems Software Tools Message-ID: <3375@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 08:23:35 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.3375 Posted: Tue Nov 19 08:23:35 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Nov-85 04:12:07 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 9 Rochkind's "Advanced UNIX Programming" is excellent for its intended audience, which is people who know C programming and need to learn about UNIX-specific programming. It does not much overlap Kernighan & Pike's "The UNIX Programming Environment"; these two books, along with Kernighan & Ritchie's "The C Programming Language", constitute a very good learning library for UNIX system programming. I haven't seen Biggerstaff's book.