On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Adam Rogoyski wrote:

>    You have access to the man pages for all of this and even the GNU info
> pages for most of this as well.
        Yes, and that's partly how I learned socket programming. 
        But I finally want a book. K&R and Stroustrup have paid for
themselves many times over, and I'm looking for something in that vein. 
        

> >     _Linux_Application_Development_
> >             Michael K. Johnson, Erik W. Troan: Addison-Wesley, May 98
>    I've read this, and it is basically "Using C on the Unix system" but
> with much worse examples.  It also has a lot of mistakes on that printing.
        That's a pretty negative endorsement. Nix that book.  


> Get a Unix book.  If you want linux specific items, read the man pages.
        Of course. But tell that to publishers writing the TITLES. 

                                                        -Alex

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