This handbook is meant for system administrators who want to install and manage the UUCP and Usenet software. It covers HoneyDanBer UUCP as well as standard Version 2 UUCP, with special notes on Xenix. As one reader noted over the Net, "Don't even TRY to install UUCP without it!"

Topics covered in Managing UUCP include:

<ul><li>How UUCP works. <li>RS-232 cabling. <li>Talking with modems. <li>Setting up a UUCP link. <li>Security considerations. <li>UUCP administration. <li>Introduction to Usenet. <li>Installing Netnews. <li>Administering Netnews.

The tenth edition of this classic work has been revised and expanded to include descriptions of:

<ul><li>How to use NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) to transfer Usenet news over TCP/IP and other high-speed networks. <li>How to get DOS versions of UUCP. <li>How to set up DOS-based laptop computers as traveling UUCP nodes. <li>How the UUCP 'g' protocol works.

It all started with a series of odd statistics. The leading challenger to
Microsoft's stranglehold on the computer industry is an operating system
called Linux, the product of thousands of volunteer programmers who
collaborate over the Internet. The software behind a majority of all the
world's web sites doesn't come from a big company either, but from a
loosely coordinated group of volunteer programmers called the Apache Group.
The Internet itself, and much of its core software, was developed through a
process of networked collaboration.

The key to these stunning successes is a movement that has come to be
called open source, because it depends on the ability of programmers to
freely share their program source code so that others can improve it. In
1997, Eric S. Raymond outlined the core principles of this movement in a
manifesto called The Cathedral and the Bazaar, which was published and
freely redistributed over the Internet.

Mr. Raymond's thinking electrified the computer industry. He argues that
the development of the Linux operating system by a loose confederation of
thousands of programmers-without central project management or
control-turns on its head everything we thought we knew about software
project management. Internet-enabled collaboration and free information
sharing, not monopolistic control, is the key to innovation and product
quality.

This idea was interesting to more than programmers and software project
leaders. It suggested a whole new way of doing business, and the
possibility of unprecedented shifts in the power structures of the computer

industry.

The rush to capitalize on the idea of open source started with Netscape's
decision to release its flagship Netscape Navigator product under open
source licensing terms in early 1998. Before long, Fortune 500 companies
like Intel, IBM, and Oracle were joining the party. By August 1999, when
the leading Linux distributor, Red Hat Software, made its hugely successful
public stock offering, it had become clear that open source was "the next
big thing" in the computer industry.

This revolutionary book starts out with A Brief History of Hackerdom-the
historical roots of the open-source movement-and details the events that
led to the recognition of the power of open source. It contains the full
text of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, updated and expanded for this book,
plus Mr. Raymond's other key essays on the social and economic dynamics of
open-source software development.

Open source is the competitive advantage in the Internet Age. The Cathedral
and the Bazaar is a must for anyone who cares about the computer industry
or the dynamics of the information economy. Already, billions of dollars
have been made and lost based on the ideas in this book. Its conclusions
will be studied, debated, and implemented for years to come.

Needless to say, we also have utilities and programs for the 'Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister' (a.k.a. Perl 5). Concludes with an excellent exposition of process management techniques, delayed execution, time and performance issues, terminal problems, printing utilities, shell script programming anddebugging 'gotchas'. Has a nice chapter on useful programs and curiosities that don't seem to fit anywhere else. CD-ROM contains source code and pre-compiled binaries, complete listing runs to 20 pages.

Publication is based on the knowledge, wisdom, expertise and technical excellence of UNIX programmers and contributors, we commend them and certainly recommend this publication.

The latest edition of this best-selling favorite is loaded with advice about almost every aspect of Unix, covering all the new technologies that users need to know. In addition to vital information on Linux, Darwin, and BSD, Unix Power Tools 3rd Edition now offers more coverage of bash, zsh, and other new shells, along with discussions about modern utilities and applications. Several sections focus on security and Internet access. And there is a new chapter on access to Unix from Windows, addressing the heterogeneous nature of systems today. You'll also find expanded coverage of software installation and packaging, as well as basic information on Perl and Python.

Unix Power Tools 3rd Edition is a browser's book...like a magazine that you don't read from start to finish, but leaf through repeatedly until you realize that you've read it all. Bursting with cross-references, interesting sidebars explore syntax or point out other directions for exploration, including relevant technical details that might not be immediately apparent. The book includes articles abstracted from other O'Reilly books, new information that highlights program tricks and gotchas, tips posted to the Net over the years, and other accumulated wisdom.

Affectionately referred to by readers as "the" Unix book, UNIX Power Tools provides access to information every Unix user is going to need to know. It will help you think creatively about UNIX, and will help you get to the point where you can analyze your own problems. Your own solutions won't be far behind.

This book documents hundreds of capabilities and syntax for termcap and terminfo, writing and debugging terminal descriptions, and terminal initialization.

Contents include:

<ul><li>Terminal independence: the need for termcap and terminfo. <li>Reading termcap and terminfo entries. <li>Capability syntax. <li>Initializing the terminal environment. <li>Writing termcap and terminfo entries. <li>Converting between termcap and terminfo. <li>Detailed descriptions of the capabilities. <li>Screen dimensions and cursor movement. <li>Initialization and reset. <li>Special and equivalent terminals. <li>Many useful appendices.

Linda Mui started working for O'Reilly & Associates in 1986. She was first hired as a production assistant, later became an apprentice system administrator, and now is a writer. Her first writing job was for termcap and terminfo, which she co-authored with John Strang and Tim O'Reilly. She also wrote Pick BASIC, on programming applications for Pick systems. In between writing jobs, Linda works on troff macros and tools for the O'Reilly & Associates production staff. Linda was raised in the Bronx, New York and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Lately she has been trying to improve herself by learning how to swim, play billiards, and accessorize.

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly & Associates, thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network (www.oreillynet.com) and hosts conferences on technology topics. Tim is an activist for open source and open standards, and an opponent of software patents and other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim's long term vision for his company is to help change the world by capturing and transmitting the knowledge of innovators.

John Strang now finds himself "a consumer—rather than a producer of Nutshells." He is currently a diagnostic radiologist (MD) at Stanford University. He is married to a pediatrician, Susie, and they have two children, Katie and Alex. John enjoys hiking, bicycling, and dabbling in other sciences. He plans to use his experience as an author at ORA to write his own book on radiology.

Uses the Motif 1.2 widget set in examples and covers X11 Release 5.

Volume 4 includes:

<ul><li>Introduction to the X Window System. <li>Building applications with widgets. <li>Constructing a bitmap editor with widgets. <li>An overview of each widget in the widget set. <li>Basic widget methods. <li>Events, translations, and accelerators. <li>Event handlers, timeouts, and work procedures. <li>Resource management and type conversion. <li>Selections and window manager interaction. <li>Geometry management. <li>Menus, gadgets, and cascaded pop-ups. <li>Miscellaneous techniques. <li>Comparison of Athena, OSF/Motif, and AT&T OPEN LOOK widgets.

This book is designed to be used with Volume 5, X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual, which provides reference pages for each of the Xt functions, the widget classes defined by Xt, and the Athena widget set.

Adrian Nye is the author or editor of several volumes in the X Window System Series from O'Reilly & Associates. Adrian has worked as a programmer writing educational software in C and as a mechanical engineer designing offshore oil spill cleanup equipment. He has interests in the environment and the impact of people and technology. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering.

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly & Associates, thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network (www.oreillynet.com) and hosts conferences on technology topics. Tim is an activist for open source and open standards, and an opponent of software patents and other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim's long term vision for his company is to help change the world by capturing and transmitting the knowledge of innovators.