Table of ContentsForeword | xv |
Preface | xix |
Things Are Going to Get a Lot Worse Before Things Get Worse |
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| xxi |
| xxiii |
Contributions and Acknowledgment |
| xxix |
Typographical Conventions |
| xxxii |
The UNIX-HATERS Disclaimer |
| xxxiii |
Anti-Foreword | xxxv |
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Part 1: User Friendly? | 1 |
1 UNIX | 3 |
The World s First Computer Virus |
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| 4 |
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Standardizing Unconformity |
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2 Welcome, New User! | 17 |
Like Russian Roulette with Six Bullets Loaded |
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| 18 |
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Consistently Inconsistent |
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Error Messages and Error Checking, NOT! |
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3 Documentation? | 43 |
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This Is Internal Documentation? |
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For Programmers, Not Users |
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Unix Without Words: A Course Proposal |
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4 Mail | 61 |
Don't Talk to Me, I m Not a Typewriter! |
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Sendmail: The Vietnam of Berkeley Unix |
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Subject: Returned Mail: User Unknown |
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Apple Computer s Mail Disaster of 1991 |
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5 Snoozenet | 93 |
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Netnews and Usenet: Anarchy Through Growth |
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This Information Highway Needs Information |
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rn, trn: You Get What You Pay for |
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Seven Stages of Snoozenet |
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6 Terminal Insanity | 111 |
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7 The X-Windows Disaster | 123 |
How to Make a 50-MIPS Workstation Run Like a 4.77MHz IBM PC |
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X: The First Fully Modular Software Disaster |
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X Graphics: Square Peg in a Round Hole |
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X: On the Road to Nowhere |
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Part 2: Programmer s System? | 145 |
8 csh, pipes, and find | 147 |
Power Tools for Power Fools |
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9 Programming | 173 |
Hold Still, This Won't Hurt a Bit |
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The Wonderful Unix Programming Environment |
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Programming in Plato s Cave |
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"It Can't Be a Bug, My Makefile Depends on It!" |
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If You Can't Fix It, Restart It! |
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10 C++ | 203 |
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The Assembly Language of Object-Oriented Programming |
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C++ Is to C as Lung Cancer Is to Lung |
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The Evolution of a Programmer |
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Part 3: Sysadmin's Nightmare | 219 |
11 System Administration | 221 |
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Keeping Unix Running and Tuned |
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Disk Partitions and Backups |
| 227 |
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Maintaining Mail Services |
| 239 |
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12 Security | 243 |
Oh, I m Sorry, Sir, Go Ahead, I Didn t Realize You Were Root |
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The Oxymoronic World of Unix Security |
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13 The File System | 261 |
Sure It Corrupts Your Files, But Look How Fast It Is! |
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| 262 |
UFS: The Root of All Evil |
| 265 |
14 NFS | 283 |
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| 284 |
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Not File System Specific? (Not Quite) |
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Part 4: Et Cetera | 303 |
A Epilogue | 305 |
Enlightenment Through Unix |
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B Creators Admit C, Unix Were Hoax | 307 |
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C The Rise of Worse Is Better | 311 |
D Bibliography | 317 |
Just When You Thought You Were Out of the Woods... |
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Index | 319 |