DEMON SYSTEMS LIMITED ===================== 42 Hendon Lane Finchley London N3 1TT 081-349 0063 031-552 0344 (Edinburgh) email orders@demon.net BOOK.TXT - Prices of books we keep in stock. Last updated 2nd June 1994 Latest version is available from ftp.demon.co.uk:/pub/doc/books/book.txt We can supply a wide range of computer books including the O'Reilly (Nutshell), Prentice Hall & Addison Wesley range of books. We can get most titles, but those that may be of particular interest and are normally in stock: From the O'Reilly Nutshell Series: The Whole Internet Guide (Ed Krol) 1-56592-025-2 #18.50 DNS and BIND 1-56592-010-4 #22.00 TCP/IP Network Admin 0-937175-82-X #22.00 Learning Perl 1-56592-042-2 #18.50 Programming Perl 0-937175-64-1 #22.00 Practical Unix Security 0-937175-82-X #22.00 Learning GNU Emacs 0-937175-84-6 #22.00 Posix Programmer's Guide 0-937175-73-0 #25.75 sed & awk 0-937175-59-5 #20.50 sendmail 1-56592-056-2 #24.50 !%@:: Email Addressing & Networks 3rd 1-56592-031-7 #20.50 Learning the UNIX Operating System 1-56592-060-0 # 7.50 For a complete list of O'Reilly books get /pub/doc/books/bookcat.txt From Hayden: The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh 1-56830-064-9 #27.98 (TISK) From Addison Wesley The Internet Connection 0-201-5237-4 #24.95 System Connectivity and Configuration. Hardback. TCP/IP Illustrated 0-201-63346 9 #27.95 Volume 1: The Protocols. Hardback. TCP/IP ILLUST From Osborne Mcgraw Hill The Internet Yellow Pages 0-07-882023-5 #21.95 Postage (no VAT): 1 book #3.00 *except* Sendmail, TISK & TCP/IP ILLUST which are #4.00 Any 2 books #5.00 3 or more books FREE. Please mail orders@demon.net or phone 081-349 0063 to order. Descriptions of the books follow: --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Ed Krol's The Whole Internet (User Guide & Catalog) A very popular book. Although one of the first to appear on the subject of the Internet it has been kept updated and is in its 3rd revision. It is not computer specific. Chapter Headings ================ 1. What is this book about? 9. Finding software 2. What is the Internet? 10. Finding someone 3. How the Internet works 11. Tunneling through the I'net: gopher 4. What's allowed on the Internet? 12. Searching indexed databases: WAIS 5. Remote login 13. Hypertext spanning the I'net: WWW 6. Moving files: ftp 14. Other applications 7. Electronic mail 15. Dealing with problems 8. Network news 16. Resources on the Internet Also includes a pull-out quick-reference card. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * DNS and BIND By Cricket Liu & Paul Albitz This book is a complete guide to the Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) and the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) software, the UNIX implementation of DNS. DNS is the system that translates hostnames (like "rock.ora.com") into Internet addresses (like 192.54.67.23) Until BIND was developed, name translation was based on a "host table"; if you were on the Internet, you got a table that listed all the systems connected to the Net, and their address. As the Internet grew from hundreds to thousands to hundreds of thousands of systems, host tables became unworkable. DNS is a distributed database that solves the same problem effectively, allowing the Net to grow without constraints. Rather than having a central table that gets distributed to very system on the Net, it allows local administrators to assign their own hostnames and addresses, and install these names in a local database. This database is automatically distributed to other systems, as names are needed. In addition to covering the basic motivation behind DNS and how to set up the BIND software, this book covers many more advanced topics: how to become a "parent" (i.e., "delegate" the ability to assign names to someone else); how to use DNS to set up mail forwarding correctly; debugging and trouble-shooting; and programming. Assumes a basic knowledge of system administration and network management. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * TCP/IP Network Administration Book: Written by Craig Hunt, published with the new Lay Flat binding. It describes how to set up and administer a network of UNIX systems using TCP/IP and following a practical approach. Chapter Headings ================ 1. Overview of TCP/IP 8. Configuring DNS name service 2. Delivering the data 9. Network applications 3. Name service concepts 10. sendmail 4. Getting started 11. Troublehooting TCP/IP 5. Basic configuration 12. Network security 6. Configuring the interface 13. Interface information resources 7. Configuring routing Appendices: Forms, gated, named etc. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Learning Perl By Randal L. Schwartz, Foreword by Larry Wall Learning perl, O'Reilly's new Nutshell Handbook, is ideal for system administrators, programmers, and anyone else wanting a down-to-earth introduction to this useful language. Written by a Perl trainer, its aim is to make a competent, hands-on Perl programmer out of the reader as quickly as possible. The book takes a tutorial approach, and includes hundreds of short code examples, along with some lengthy ones. The relatively inexperienced programmer will find Learning perl easily accessible. Each chapter of the book includes practical programming exercises. Solutions are presented for all exercises. For a comprehensive and detailed guide to programming with Perl, read O'Reilly's companion book Programming perl. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Programming Perl By Larry Wall & Randal L. Schwartz This is the authoritative guide to the hottest new UNIX utility in years, co-authored by its creator. Perl is a language for easily manipulating text, files, and processes. Perl provides a more concise and readable way to do many jobs that were formerly accomplished (with difficulty) by programming in the C language or one of the shells. Even though perl is not yet a standard part of UNIX, it is likely to be available wherever you choose to work. And if it isn't, you can get it and install it easily and free of charge. Also includes a pull-out quick-reference card. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Practical UNIX Security By Simson Garfinkel & Gene Spafford If you are a UNIX system administrator or user who needs to deal with security, you need this book. Practical UNIX Security tells system administrators how to make their UNIX system---either System V or BSD---as secure as it possibly can be without going to trusted system technology. The book describes UNIX concepts and how they enforce security, tells how to defend against and handle security breaches, and explains network security (including UUCP, NFS, Kerberos, and firewall machines) in detail. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Learning GNU Emacs By Debora Cameron & Bill Rosenblatt GNU Emacs is the most popular and widespread of the Emacs family of editors. It is also the most powerful and flexible. (Unlike all other text editors, GNU Emacs is a complete working environment---you can stay within Emacs all day without leaving.) This book tells you how to get started with the GNU Emacs editor. It will also "grow" with you: as you become more proficient, this book will help you learn how to use Emacs more effectively. It will take you from basic Emacs usage (simple text editing) to moderately complicated customization and programming. The book is aimed at new Emacs users, whether or not they are programmers. Also useful for readers switching from other Emacs implementations to GNU Emacs. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * POSIX Programmer's Guide By Donald Lewine Most UNIX systems today are POSIX-compliant because the Federal government requires it for its purchases. Even OSF and UI agree on support for POSIX. Given the manufacturer's documentation, however, it can be difficult to distinguish system-specific features from those features defined by POSIX. The POSIX Programmer's Guide, intended as an explanation of the POSIX standard and as a reference for the POSIX.1 programming library, helps you write more portable programs. This guide is especially helpful if you are writing programs that must run on multiple UNIX platforms. This guide also helps you convert existing UNIX programs for POSIX compliance. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * sed & awk By Dale Dougherty For people who create and modify text files, sed and awk are powerful tools for editing. Can save hours of repetitive work - a must for UNIX system programmers and administrators, even general UNIX readers will benefit. This book contains a comprehensive treatment of sed and awk syntax. It emphasizes the kinds of practical problems that sed and awk can help users to solve, with many useful example scripts and programs. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * sendmail By Bryan Costales, with Eric Allman & Neil Rickert This new Nutshell Handbook is far and away the most comprehensive book ever written on sendmail, a program that acts like a traffic cop in routing and delivering mail on UNIX-based networks. Although sendmail is used on almost every UNIX system, it's one of the last great uncharted territories--and most difficult utilities to learn-- in UNIX system administration. This book provides a complete sendmail tutorial, plus extensive reference material on every aspect of the program. It covers IDA sendmail; the newest version (V8) from Berkeley; and the standard versions available on most systems. Part One of the book is a tutorial on understanding sendmail; Part Two covers practical issues in sendmail administration; Part Three is a comprehensive reference section; and Part Four consists of appendices and a bibliography. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * Learning the UNIX Operating System By Grace Todino, John Strang & Jerry Peek If you are new to UNIX, this concise introduction will tell you just what you need to get started and no more. Why wade through a six-hundred-page book when you can begin working productively in a matter of minutes? This book is the most effective introduction to UNIX in print. This new edition has been updated and expanded to provide increased coverage of window systems and networking. It's a handy book for someone just starting with UNIX, as well as someone who encounters a UNIX system as a "visitor" via remote login over the Internet. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * !%@:: A Directory of Electronic Mail Addressing & Networks By Donnalyn Frey & Rick Adams This is the only up-to-date directory that charts the networks that make up the Internet, provides contact names and addresses, and describes the services each network provides. It includes all of the major Internet-based networks, as well as various commercial networks such as CompuServe, Delphi, and America Online that are "gatewayed" to the Internet for transfer of electronic mail and other services. If you are someone who wants to connect to the Internet, or someone who already is connected but wants concise, up-to-date information on many of the world's networks, check out this book. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * The Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh: Written by Adam Engst, publisher of TidBITS. Over 600 pages. Excellent book. Includes a disk containing: MacTCP InterSLIP TurboGopher for gopher Eudora 1.4 for Mail Fetch for ftp StuffitExpander Easy to follow style, good resource reference section. A must for all Mac users. The software requires System 7. The book has an RRP of #27.50 but because there is a disk with it we have to charge 10% of the VAT i.e. #(27.50 / 10) * 0.175 = #0.48 totals #27.98 FREE EXTRA DISK: The Demon Mac Install Script disk - makes installing the Mac software easy. Includes extra utilities as well. FREE of charge to all purchases of this book. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * The Internet Connection: System Connectivity and Configuration. Hardback. John S. Quarterman and Smoot Carl-Mitchell A very good book to learn about TCP/IP and how to configure a system and connect it to the Internet. This book is recommended for the slightly more computer literate person perhaps setting up a Unix system. Chapter Headings ================ 1. Internet Services 8. Setting Up USENET News 2. The Internet & Other Networks 9. Security Issues 3. Types of Internet Access 10. Setting Up Resource 4. Registering Domain Names and IP Numbers Discovery Services 5. Setting Up IP Appendix A-D. 6. Setting Up the Domain Name System 7. Setting Up Internet E-mail --------------------------------------------------------------------- * TCP/IP Illustrated. Volume 1: The Protocols Hardback. W. Richard Stevens Instead of merely describing the RFC's, bestselling author Rich Stevens takes an innovative "visual" approach which, when combined with his writing style, results in an acessible, understandable guide to TCP/IP. Combined with plentiful, practical examples, this comprehensive guide covers SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.2, System V Release 4, BSD/386, AIX 3.2.2 and 4.4 BSD. --------------------------------------------------------------------- * The Internet Yellow Pages Harley Hahn and Rick Stout Hahn and Stout's incredible directory shows users what is available on the world's largest network as well as how to access that information immediately. The Internet Yellow Pages, with its unique "phone book" design and easy-to-reference alphabetical format, transcends area codes to provide up-to-date information for Internet users around the globe. Hobbyists, professionals, university users - The Internet Yellow Pages has something for everyone. The comprehensive listing of resources covers well over 100 categories including Art, Hobbies, Humor, Music, Religion, Software, Sports and Television. It saves hundreds of hours of research time and allows users to make good use of every minute spent on the Internet. ---------------------------------------------------------------------