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Title: Universal Command Guide: For Operating Systems by Guy Lotgering, Universal Command Guide (UCG) Training Team ISBN: 0-7645-4833-6 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 15 April, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $69.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (10 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: UCG book in research and teaching
Comment: I had waited a long time for a book that could serve me as "manual pages" for different operating systems.
Best part of this book is that if you are familiar with one OS you can now find the similar command in another OS. Afterall, when learning commands of a new OS the most difficult part (atleast for myself) was to ask the right questions - what can you do in this OS? I've used the book to find right commands for optimizing my Linux environment for heavy Matlab use and the book has served it's purpose well.
Because of good indexing of the book I feel that it is also good material for university students, especially for Operating systems courses.
There is one bad thing about the book, though. It is extremely big and heavy - and will probably ruin your bookbag ;D
Rating: 5
Summary: Ambitious...and it delivers
Comment: While initially quite skeptical of a book attempting to cover such disparate operating systems, the reality is that I have found this volume to be indespensible. Since I work with Red Hat Linux primarily and Solaris (v8) also rather frequently, it's easy use the UCG to get the syntax differences of those two environments. Sure, I could just scan the man pages -- but the already well-worn out copy of my UCG has enough bookmarks and paperclip (and yellow highlights) to make turning to it easier. It has also helped me better understand that there are quite a few ways to perform networking tasks using the Windows command line (as opposed to becoming dependent on the GUI). The charts showing the equivalency of commands across the diverse operating environments is a real time-saver. As a partisan of the O'Reilly books, I've come to the general conclusion that the value of a book is inversely proportional to its size. A big, thick book is generally fluff. But, this one is the exception.
Rating: 4
Summary: missing HPUX and Digital UNIX
Comment: This book is very complete for the OS's it covers. However, it doesn't cover HPUX or Digital Unix, which, AFAIK, are pretty popular variants of UNIX (especially HPUX).
Don't get me wrong...it's a real buy. The cross-reference and details (including examples) are excellent, and it's a "must" for persons having to deal with a heterogeneous OS environment; or for admins/users having to get used to a new OS.
I just wish the cover didn't say, "Every Command \ Every Operating System \ Cross-Referenced Together". That, to me, is misleading.
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Title: Windows 2000 Commands Pocket Reference by AElig;leen Frisch ISBN: 0596001487 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: AIX 5L Administration by Randal K. Michael ISBN: 0072222557 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 02 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Microsoft Windows 2000 Scripting Guide by The Microsoft Windows Resourc, Microsoft Corporation ISBN: 0735618674 Publisher: Microsoft Press Pub. Date: 06 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Unix Power Tools, Third Edition by Shelley Powers, Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, Mike Loukides ISBN: 0596003307 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
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Title: DNS on Windows 2000 by Matt Larson, Cricket Liu ISBN: 0596002300 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 15 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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