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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 05:05:51 MDT
From: Rob Slade <rslade@sfu.ca>
Subject: Book Review: "Practical Internetworking with TCP/IP and UNIX"
BKPIWTAU.RVW 931130
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
Kelly Ford, Promotion/Publicity Coordinator
Heather Rignanesi, Marketing, x340, 73171.657@Compuserve.com
P.O. Box 520 26 Prince Andrew Place
Don Mills, Ontario M3C 2T8
416-447-5101 fax: 416-443-0948
or
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John Wait, Editor, Corporate and Professional Publishing johnw@aw.com
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800-822-6339 617-944-3700
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800-447-2226
"Practical Internetworking with TCP/IP and UNIX", Carl-Mitchell/Quarterman,
0-201-58629-0, 1993
tic@tic.com smoot@tic.com
Another good explanatory title. For those who need to connect a UNIX
machine to the Internet, this is a one-stop reference for most of the
basic necessities.
The book starts with a historical and conceptual backgrounder on the
Internet. This first section also gives technical and even some
programming details on the basic IP, TCP and UDP protocols. The
technical level is advanced, but fully explained for the perseverent
newcomer.
Part two is the practical side. Four chapters give the basics of the
setup, email, sendmail and other services. For a standard system,
this could be almost all you need to get running.
Part three covers advanced topics such as the integration of
microcomputers, network management and debugging. It is nice to see a
work that addresses the issues of micros, which are ubiquitous in the
usual workplace. It is equally nice to see a practical approach, such
as the suggestion to use terminal emulation if such will fill the
bill. (It is amusing to see a mild tendency towards UNIX chauvinism
in such subtle ways as the use of the UNIX default lower case filename
convention applied to the case insensitive/upper case MS- DOS file
system.)
Appendices give tips on the use of various Internet services as well
as some useful utility program listings.
As always with Quarterman's writings, there are extensive biliographic
and reference listings.
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1993 BKPIWTAU.RVW 931130
Permission granted to distribute with unedited copies of the TELECOM
Digest and associated mailing lists/newsgroups.
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DECUS Canada Communications, Desktop, Education and Security group newsletters
Editor and/or reviewer ROBERTS@decus.ca, RSlade@sfu.ca, Rob Slade at 1:153/733
DECUS Symposium '94, Vancouver, BC, Mar 1-3, 1994, contact: rulag@decus.ca