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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!europa.chnt.gtegsc.com!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!metrics.com!news.maplesoft.on.ca!ia.mks.com!not-for-mail From: davidf@deci.mks.com (David J. Fiander) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: New User's Book Date: 18 Jan 1996 08:03:05 -0500 Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Inc. Lines: 25 Message-ID: <4dlge9$3r1@deci.mks.com> References: <4dfu0h$mu4@news.mel.aone.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: deci.mks.com According to alan@s056.aone.net.au (Alan Ruedlinger): >Can anyone comment on the book "Design & Implementation of 4.3 BSD >Unix Operating System" by Leffler et. al.? Is this a good book to the >new user with no previous unix experience in terms of system >administration? It's a great book, but not one for system administrators. I'd recommend _Essential Unix System Administration_ by people whose names I should remember, and any of the O'Reilly Nutshell books. (Actually, I don't recommend "any" of the nutshell books, I recommend "all" of the nutshell books.) >Also, I've managed to customise and recompile my kernel, but, uhmmm.. >errr.. how do I compile C programs? I wrote the all time favourite >'Hello world!" straight from a book on C, but it won't run :( I've >compiled it by typing "gcc -v hello.c"; an a.out file is created but >when I type a.out, FreeBSD tells me something like 'command not found' >(incidentally, I tried this on a linux machine and it worked first go >:).. DOS always checks your current directory to find programs that you're trying to run, but UNIX only looks on the PATH; nowhere else. Try typing "./a.out". - David