Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: A Library Of ... Books? Date: 21 Feb 2026 00:55:53 GMT Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <10mmdvu$22lfc$2@dont-email.me> <10n2sgt$26ic6$1@dont-email.me> <6995c621$0$676$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <20260220161257.3f3ef988f30b10aa091ce590@127.0.0.1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net s44ZdjyhEJcGT3vE5vqkewWv5UtOX6aXRqPjHPp16CoXrMW+MX Cancel-Lock: sha1:tNBGl0+hiHK7Blu8AjKg2jrhoTo= sha256:goLgnW58LVufF4Lke0W4/7MwRoOBTU2zRC7DJyIPwbI= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:28247 On Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:12:57 +0000, Kerr-Mudd, John wrote: > On 18 Feb 2026 14:48:57 GMT Bob Eager wrote: > >> On Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:01:05 +0000, Aharon Robbins wrote: >> >> > However, O'Reilly and other publishers are still publishing paper >> > books, >> > with the books being available in soft copy as well, which many >> > people prefer. >> > >> > For instance, Pearson just published the second edition of my book on >> > basic *nix programming. >> >> Thank you for your books! I have several. >> >> I started using UNIX in 1975, and your Shell Programming book is still >> well thumbed. And I'm using the gdb pocket reference right now. >> >> >> >> -- > [I deliberately broke the sig sep] > >> Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... >> >> Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: >> http://www.mirrorservice.org > > > So that's 50 years of cryptic commands with obscure single letter > (U/lcase) parameters. :-) I didn't say I always liked it. The redundancy in longer commands has saved me a few times on other systems. (I used a system where the command ED edited a file. And the command ER deleted it. Look where the difference is on the keyboard. That was a British system) -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org