> > Really? I flipped through it in the bookstore and didn't find much of > value to a long-time UNIX user. Specifically, I wanted to see much more > discussion about netinfo and other darwin/osx-isms that you don't find > on other *NIXes. The coverage of netinfo was pretty much limited to > "there's a utility called nidump, and another called niutil", but no > coverage on how to add a new group, etc.
Sorry, I guess I underestimated the needs of the book's target audience. For me, at least, it provides more than enough information. I'm sure more advanced developer types would appreciate the documentation that Elaine pointed to @ Apple. Perhaps the shortcomings of this book will compel another author to write a more in-depth guide. Let me rewrite my original recommendation, then, as follows: "If you are a casual user of Mac OS X who would like to leverage some existing knowledge of UNIX, and get a taste of Apple's implementation of such, you may want to skim a copy of Mac OS X For UNIX Geeks at your local bookstore. Hopefully this will whet your appetite to do more exploration on your own." My apologies if I misled anyone as to the usefulness or appropriateness of the above mentioned title. Peter -- Peter R. Wood - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://peter.prwdot.org/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
