Briefly traces the history of the UNIX operating system, discusses its advantages and disadvantages, and looks at UNIX services, applications, and future developments

Product Description: Writing functional, understandable programming code just got easier! Written by well-known author and columnist Don Libes, this insightful and at times humorous work takes you through good and bad codes, and helps you understand the differences between them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Expect is quickly becoming a part of every UNIX user's toolbox. It allows you to automate Telnet, FTP, passwd, rlogin, and hundreds of other applications that normally require human interaction. Using Expect to automate these applications will allow you to speed up tasks and, in many cases, solve new problems that you never would have even considered before...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Tcl language and Tk toolkit, even alone, offer many benefits: They're easy to learn, capable of producing good interfaces quickly, great for prototyping applications, and they are infinitely customizable. But one of the greatest strengths of Tcl/Tk is the range of extensions written for it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)