FOR Your Information -------------------- This is a new product announcement. Forwarding this new product announcement in no way implies an endorsement by Sun etc. etc. -johnj -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- O'Reilly & Associates produce an excellent series of UNIX books called Nutshell Handbooks. I highly recommend them. They also produce a newsletter describing their UNIX books. For further information, contact O'Reilly: Mail: 632 Petaluma Aveneue, Sebastopol CA 95472 Phone: 1-800-338-6887 (in CA 1-800-533-6887) FAX: 1-707-829-0104 The newest Nutshell Handbook is called "!%@:: A Guide to Electronic Mail Addressing and Networks". Here is some of the description of this new book from their newsletter: "Sending email is fast, easy, convenient - so long as you know the recipient's address. How do you get email from your network to another network ? -------------------------------------------------------- !%@:: A Guide to Electronic Mail Addressing and Networks will help -------------------------------------------------------- you unravel the sometimes comples series of connections to send mail. The aim of the book is to allow you to become familiar with networks you can use to reach people around the world. It assists you in finding someone else's address and sending mail. This book will also help you discover what networks are available in your area, and who to contact for access to the network. Topics covered include: o Email addressing introduction o Academic, research, and commercial networks such as UUNET o For each network: - general description - address structure and format - architecture - connections to other networks or sites - facilities available to users - contact name and address - cross-reference to other networks - future plans - date of last update " This is a list of the Nutshell handbooks and their prices (from Volume 2, Issue 2, June-July 1989): Basic UNIX Books Learning the UNIX Operating System $9.00 Learning the vi Editor $15.00 DOS meets UNIX $15.00 UNIX Quick Reference UNIX in a Nutshell (System V) $19.50 UNIX in a Nutshell (Berkeley) $19.50 UNIX Communications !%@:: A Guide to Electronic Mail Addressing and Networks $19.95 Managing UUCP and Usenet $21.95 Using UUCP and Usenet $17.95 UNIX and C Programming Checking C Programs with Lint $12.95 Managing Projects with make $9.00 Programmimg with Curses $9.00 Understanding and Using COFF $21.95 Using C on the UNIX System $24.95 UNIX Terminals Termcap & Terminfo $21.95 UNIX for Hypercard UNIX in a Nutshell for HyperCard $49.95 X Window System Series Xlib Programming Manuals, 2 Vols $60.00 X Window System User's Guide $26.95 Other UNIX Books UNIX Text Processing $26.95 (please confirm these prices with O'Reilly as my typing is not covered by any form of insurance!) O'Reilly & Associates are working on the "XView Programming Book". This will describe Sun's XView Toolkit. Publication is expected in September.