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- 2 Welcome, New User!..................................................
- Cryptic Command Names ........................................................... Like Russian Roulette with Six Bullets Loaded
- Accidents Will Happen................................................................
- Consistently Inconsistent.............................................................
- Online Documentation ................................................................
- Error Messages and Error Checking, NOT! ................................
- The Unix Attitude........................................................................
- 3 Documentation?...............................................................
- On-line Documentation ............................................................... What Documentation?
- This Is Internal Documentation? .................................................
- For Programmers, Not Users .......................................................
- Unix Without Words: A Course Proposal ...................................
- 4 Mail..............................................................................................
- Sendmail: The Vietnam of Berkeley Unix .................................. Don’t Talk to Me, I’m Not a Typewriter!
- Subject: Returned Mail: User Unknown .....................................
- From: [email protected] ...........................
- Apple Computer’s Mail Disaster of 1991....................................
- 5 Snoozenet...............................................................................
- Netnews and Usenet: Anarchy Through Growth ........................ I Post, Therefore I Am
- Newsgroups .................................................................................
- Alt.massive.flamage ..................................................................
- This Information Highway Needs Information .........................
- rn, trn: You Get What You Pay for ............................................
- When in Doubt, Post .................................................................
- Seven Stages of Snoozenet ........................................................
- 6 Terminal Insanity.......................................................... xi
- Original Sin Curses! Foiled Again!
- The Magic of Curses
- 7 The X-Windows Disaster......................................
- X: The First Fully Modular Software Disaster 4.77MHz IBM PC
- X Myths .....................................................................................
- X Graphics: Square Peg in a Round Hole
- X: On the Road to Nowhere ......................................................
- Part 2: Programmer’s System?.................
- 8 csh, pipes, and find......................................................
- The Shell Game ......................................................................... Power Tools for Power Fools
- Shell Programming....................................................................
- Pipes ..........................................................................................
- Find............................................................................................
- 9 Programming....................................................................
- The Wonderful Unix Programming Environment Hold Still, This Won’t Hurt a Bit
- Programming in Plato’s Cave ....................................................
- “It Can’t Be a Bug, My Makefile Depends on It!” ....................
- If You Can’t Fix It, Restart It! ...................................................