UNIX for the MS-DOS User

UNIX for the MS-DOS User, 1/e

Kenneth Pugh, Pugh-Killeen Associates, Durham, NC

Published May, 1994 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

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Summary

This volume is designed to help MS-DOS programmers become rapidly proficient in the UNIX environment. It focuses on the similarities and differences between the two operating systems, enabling programmers to perform all the operations they did in MS- DOS plus those available only on UNIX systems.

describes the most common and useful features of the shells and tools.
covers operations that most MS-DOS users perform (e.g., copying files and editing text) and explores the Shell (the user interface to the operating system).
describes the multi-user, multi-tasking features of the UNIX system.
explains the shell script files—which are comparable to MS-DOS batch (.bat) files (the Bourne shell, the Korn shell, and the C shell)—showing how the differences between them for many common operations is minimal, and how their programming constructs are different.
explores the administrative side of the UNIX system—backing up files and setting up new users.
examines text processing utilities.
contains Workouts—examples to try out on the UNIX system.
provides references to additional information.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.
2. File and Directories.
3. Shells.
4. A Common Editor - vi.
4a. Another Common Editor - emacs.
5. Multiple Users.
6. Multi-tasking.
7. Shell General.
8. Tools.
9. Bourne Shell.
10. C Shell.
11. System Administration.
12. Text Processing nroff/troff.
13. Text revision systems - SCCS.
14. Pattern Scanning Language - awk.
Appendix: DOS Commands and UNIX Equivalents.