BKUNXNTP.RVW 940429 PTR Prentice Hall 113 Sylvan Avenue Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632 (515) 284-6751 FAX (515) 284-2607 or 11711 N. College Ave. Carmel, IN 46032-9903 or 201 W. 103rd Street Indianapolis, IN 46290 or 15 Columbus Circle New York, NY 10023 800-428-5331 or Market Cross House Cooper Street Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1EB England phyllis@prenhall.com - Phyllis Eve Bregman 70621.2737@CompuServe.COM Alan Apt mfranz@prenhall.com Mary Franz Beth Mullen-Hespe beth_hespe@prenhall.com "UNIX Network Programming", Stevens, 1990, 0-13-949876-1 rstevens@noao.edu This is a very solid textbook for the programming of network functions and applications in the UNIX environment. Starting with the basics of network models, the book then moves through UNIX specific net concepts and interprocess communications. The details of TCP/IP are evidently the preferred model in the examples, but XNS, SNA, NetBIOS, OSI and UUCP also get coverage. Berkeley sockets and the System V transport interface are outlined, as well as Berkeley library routines. There is discussion of applications in security, time and date, ping, trivial file transfer protocol, print spoolers, remote execution, login and drive access, performance and remote procedure calls. The excellence of the text is also evident in the care taken with the chapter exercises. They are not mere reading checks, but real tests of understanding of the concepts covered. The bibliography, as well, is thorough and helpfully annotated. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1994 BKUNXNTP.RVW 940429 ============== Vancouver ROBERTS@decus.ca | "My son, beware ... of the Institute for Robert_Slade@sfu.ca | making of books there is Research into rslade@cue.bc.ca | no end, and much study is User p1@CyberStore.ca | a weariness of the flesh." Security Canada V7K 2G6 | Ecclesiastes 12:12