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Introduction
- How to Use This Book
- Who Are You?
- How This Book Is Organized
- Part I: Welcome Back!
- Part II: UNIX Scripts
- Part III: Editors and Mail Programs
- Part IV: Pointing and Clicking with Motif
- Part V: UNIX and the Internet
- Icons Used in This Book
- What Now?
- Write to Us
Part I: Welcome Back!
- Chapter 1: We're Ba-a-a-ck!
- What's Old, What's New
- Let a Hundred Versions Blossom
- Some prehistory
- You can't tell the players without a scorecard
- Good GNUs and bad GNUs
- Who -- Us? Leave Well Enough Alone?
- Chapter 2: A Short Refresher Course
- Typing Practice
- Just in Case
- Logging In
- The Shell Game
- What's on File?
- Chapter 3: Far Too Many Versions of UNIX and a Few Too Many Shells
- The Shell Game
- Your basic shell
- Korn gold
- Bourne again
- See shells
- How to tell which shell you have
- How much difference does all this make?
- You Mean, UNIX Isn't Just UNIX?
- Old AT&T-ish systems
- Newer AT&T-ish systems
- BSD-ish systems
- How Much Practical Difference Does It Make?
- OK, How Do I Tell Which UNIX I Have?
- Let's Be Sneaky
Part II: UNIX Scripts
- Chapter 4: An Introduction to Scripts
- What Is a Script?
- Where Do Scripts Live?
- Where the shell looks for programs
- Look in my bin!
- Writing a Script
- Running a Script
- Shells and Scripts
- Tiresome Arguments
- What's an argument?
- Arguing with scripts
- Environmental Impact
- Do's and Don'ts
- Chapter 5: The Shell Game: Using Shell Variables
- What's in a Variable?
- Name that variable!
- If you use the Bourne or Korn shell or BASH
- If you use the C shell
- A variable is born
- What good are variables?
- Killing variables
- Variables You Already Have
- If you use the Bourne or Korn shell or BASH
- Using predefined variables
- If you use the Korn shell
- If you use the C shell
- The C shell's predefined variables
- Environment variables
- Chapter 6: Fancy Script Commands
- Making Smarter Shell Scripts
- Return of the program
- Sensitivity training: If this, then that
- Or else!
- Lots of stuff to do
- Testing, testing
- File, are you there?
- Testing command-line arguments
- A star is Bourne
- Testing variables
- Lots of possibilities!
- Asking Questions and Getting Answers
- Repeating the Same Commands Over Again One More Time
- Give me a break!
- Time to downshift!
- Coming to the for
- Would you like to see the menu?
- Handling Errors
- Testing and Debugging Scripts
- Build them a piece at a time
- Put in echo statements
- Use the built-in tracing
- Chapter 7: Setting Things Up Nice
- Bourne Again
- Everyone's profile
- Your own private profile
- She Sells C Shells
- Miscellaneous Files
- Chapter 8: Down by the Old Text Stream
- What to Say to sed
- Let's Be Selective
- Too much to type
- We lied
- We Don't Need No Stinking grep
- Your basic database
- In case that wasn't confusing enough
- We promise, this one is the worst
- Lots of Stupid sed Tricks
- Picking out lines by number
- Scrambling parts of lines
- Picking out multiple kinds of lines
- Slicing and dicing
- If You're a Glutton for Punishment
- Chapter 9: Awk-ward, Ho!
- The Theory of Pure Awk
- Selecting Stuff
- Selecting a coupla things
- Check out this example
- Transforming Stuff
- Summarizing Stuff
- More Allegedly Clever Awk Tricks
- A List of What You've Learned
- Had Enough?
- Chapter 10: Mixing It Up
- Let's Not Be Needlessly awk-ward
- Checking It Out
- Checking out, first riff
- Sort of checking out
- Checking out, the grand denouement
- One Last Tedious Awk and Shell Trick
Part III: Editors and Mail Programs
- Chapter 11: Oy, Vi!
- Starting Up
- Cursors -- Foiled Again!
- Vi à la Mode
- You're in command
- Exiting from vi
- Navigating Around Your File
- What's my line?
- Staying in line!
- Cruising around the screen
- Relatively speaking
- Getting a decent character reference
- Oops -- Let Me Take that Back
- I Know That It's Here Somewhere!
- Time to Type
- Entering Text at Long Last
- It Slices, It Dices
- Blow me away
- Why can't they just call it "cut and paste"?
- Yanking and putting commands
- Using Last-Line Mode
- Read More Files!
- Save More!
- Practice safe editing
- Write on!
- Over and Out
- Some Pearls for Vi Power Users
- Tag -- you're it
- Avoiding shell shock
- Getting more mouse power
- Two -- two -- two files at once (or three, or n!)
- Chapter 12: Have a Big Emacs!
- This Is Emacs
- Running emacs
- Running away from emacs
- A Few Key Concepts
- I can't believe it's not buffer!
- Meta-morphosis
- Editing à la mode
- How to command emacs
- A File Here, a File There
- Attention, lazy typists!
- Doing two things at one time
- Let's split
- How can you edit two files at once?
- A new name
- Fooling with Text
- Smooth editing moves
- Blowing text away
- Oops!
- Slicing and Dicing
- Moving a line or two
- Moving a word or three
- On your mark
- Copying a line or four
- Glomming files together
- Wrapping and Indenting
- Fill 'er up
- How long is yours?
- Searching for Mr. Goodtext
- Fooling with Directories
- Dired consequences
- Show me that file
- Blow it away
- Other file foolishness
- Mailing from Emacs
- Another Slick Trick
- A Listing of Commands
- Chapter 13: Climbing Elm
- From Tiny Acorns
- Bailing Out
- What the Elm?
- Reading the Elm Leaves
- Back to You
- About That Message
- Sending a New Message
- Stash It
- Fold me a folder
- What's in this folder?
- Going Under an Alias
- Creating a secret identity
- A.k.a.
- Now we return to our previous elm screen, already in progress
- Attachments
- Sending plain ol' text
- Sending any ol' file
- Help! I got a uuencoded file!
- Making Elm Better
- Chapter 14: Pining Away
- Running Pine
- Leaving Pine
- Sending Messages
- Reading Your Messages
- Saving Messages
- Looking in a folder
- Saving messages as text
- Printing Messages
- Creating Your Own Address Book
- Attaching Files to Messages
- Including text in your message
- Attaching files
- Decoding attached messages
Part IV: Motif
- Chapter 15: Lite Motif
- Where Did Motif Come From?
- I'm Not Just a Server -- I'm Also a Client!
- We Don't Need No Stinkin' Policy
- How did we manage without this?
- Widgets here, widgets there
- On the Border Patrol
- Switching windows
- Moving a window
- Resizing a window
- Making windows go away
- On the menu
- More Stupid Window Manager Tricks
- The Parade of Motif Widgets
- Menus
- Too many widgets
- Radio buttons
- Text boxes
- Toggle buttons
- Scales or sliders
- Option menus
- Scrollable lists and scroll bars
- Pushbuttons
- Chapter 16: Mutant Motif
- Configuring Motif: Threat or Menace?
- We Hope That You're Resourceful
- Call me Ishmael
- OK, so don't call me Ishmael
- Then how do I change a program's resources?
- Resource files -- yuck!
- Proving that you're resourceful
- Resources and Your Window Manager
- Pointer, pointer, who's got the pointer?
- Being decorative
- Where's that window?
- What's on the Menu?
- How Many Menus Would a Menu Menu If a Menu Could Menu Menus?
- Toggle, Toggle
Part V: UNIX and the Internet
- Chapter 17: The Wide World of the Internet
- What Is the Internet?
- Am I on the Internet Already?
- Numbers for Everything
- What's in a name?
- So who am I?
- What's It Good For?
- Electronic mail (e-mail)
- On-line conversation
- Bulletin boards (Usenet)
- File retrieval
- Menus and hypertext
- Where to Go from Here
- Chapter 18: Talking to the Outside World
- Mail Goes Everywhere!
- The Internet
- America Online (AOL)
- Applelink
- AT&T Mail
- BITNET
- BIX
- CompuServe
- Delphi
- Easylink
- FIDONET
- GEnie
- MCI Mail
- Prodigy
- Sprintmail (Telemail)
- UUCP
- X.400: We're from the post office, and we know what you want
- In Search of the Elusive E-Mail Address
- Fun with fingers
- The big finger
- Whois Out There on the Net?
- A New Way to Get Junk Mail: Electronic Mailing Lists
- Getting on and off lists
- Joining manual lists
- Joining LISTSERV lists
- Joining Majordomo lists
- Now what?
- Etiquette Counts
- Bursting into flame
- How private is e-mail?
- Live Talk Networking
- Chapter 19: Turbocharge Your Newsreading
- What Is Usenet?
- How Do I Read It?
- Running Trn
- Remember your first time?
- After the first time
- Choosing Newsgroups to Read
- Commanding trn
- Picking Up the Threads
- Reading the News
- File It, Please
- When Is an Article Not Really an Article?
- Dealing with Articles That Demand a Response
- Responding privately by e-mail
- Possibly making a fool of yourself
- Being Original
- Fiddling with Your Newsgroups
- Preventing Alzheimer's
- Reading the best ones first
- Killing Articles That Displease You
- What's a kill file?
- License to kill
- Narrowing your view
- Editing the kill file
- Undoing death
- Using Nn
- Get me out of here
- Choosing newsgroups
- Choosing articles
- Reading articles
- Mouthing off privately
- Mouthing off publicly
- Using Tin
- Choosing newsgroups
- Choosing and reading articles
- Getting uuencoded and shar files out of articles
- Leaving tin
- Chapter 20: Telnetting Around the Net
- How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?
- Terminal Type Tedium
- Escaping from Telnet
- Terminals Served Here
- Whipping Telnet into Shape
- Port, Anyone?
- Attack of the IBM Terminals
- Come On By, Anytime
- Some important libraries
- Other libraries
- Geography databases
- Outer-space databases
- Book databases
- Ham-radio databases
- Gateway systems
- Commercial services
- Fun and sheer goofiness
- Chapter 21: Grabbing Files over the Net
- You're a Copying Machine
- Getting connected
- Getting your file
- Getting out
- When is a file not a file?
- How to foul up your files in FTP
- The directory thicket
- What's that name again?
- Here's a file in your eye
- Getting Files Anonymously
- Hello, anonymous!
- A few anonymous FTP tips
- Great Stuff on FTP
- A word from those etiquette ladies again
- Mirror, mirror, on the net, where are the files I want to get?
- The FTP Hit Parade
- UUNET
- SIMTEL
- WUARCHIVE
- RTFM
- InterNIC
- The list of lists
- Ask Archie
- Telnet Archie
- Telling Archie how to behave: The set and show commands
- Searching for something interesting
- Sub method
- Subcase method
- Exact method
- Regex method
- How long do you want to look?
- Find it!
- After you've found it, or some of it, what is it?
- You can't get there from here
- Plain ol' Archie
- Xarchie
- E-mail Archie
- Chapter 22: What's in That File?
- A Feast of Fancy Files
- Text files
- Archives and compressed files
- Data files
- Executable files
- Packing It in
- Compression classic
- It's patently obvious: gzip
- ZIP-ing it up
- In the Archives
- The tar pit
- Copy here, copy there
- PAX vobiscum
- For the Artistically Inclined
- I could GIF a . . . .
- The eyes have it
- A trip to the movies
- Let a hundred formats blossom
- Chapter 23: Gopher the Gusto
- Exploring Gopherspace
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Where Do I Find a Gopher?
- Jumping Down a Gopher Hole
- It Must Be Around Here Somewhere
- Finally, Some Files
- A Gopher Cheat Sheet
- Telnetting via Gopher
- Veronica Saves the Day
- Leaving a Trail of Bread Crumbs
- High-Class Gopher
- Gopher menus
- Bookmarks
- Indexes
- Fetching files
- Finding out about Gopher entries
- Chatper 24: Stuck to the World Wide Web
- The What?
- A Day on the Lynx
- Coming and going
- Anatomy of a page
- Skating the Web
- Handling long pages
- Getting help
- Where have I been?
- Going right to a URL
- Printing or saving good stuff
- Fake Web pages
- News of the weird
- Gopher it
- Files via Lynx
- Lynx can act like telnet too
- Remembering the good parts
- Controlling your Lynx
- Problems
- Using Mosaic
- (Don't bother) configuring Mosaic
- Starting it up
- Leaving
- Jumping around the Web
- Stop everything!
- Changing fonts
- Printing, saving, or copying good stuff
- Remembering good places
- Finding other WWW pages
- Searching for info
- Gophers on the Web
- Files on the Web
- Telnetting with Mosaic
- How to Swing on the Web
- Chapter 25: Dealing with Excess Free Time: Internet Relay Chat
- What Is IRC?
- Worldwide Gossipmongering
- Chatting in Theory and in Practice
- Getting Connected
- Talking the Talk, Chatting the Chat
- What Channels Are on?
- Hey, Aren't We Ever Going to Do Some Chatting?
- Enough, Already!
- Starting Your Own Channel
- Private Conversations
- It's a Jungle Out There
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