[lug] Purple book?

Jim McMaster mcmaster at falcon.stortek.com
Fri Aug 18 17:37:14 MDT 2000


The "Red Book" is the second edition of the"Unix System Administration 
Handbook", by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Scott Seebass and Trent R. Hein, 
published by Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0-13-151051-7.  I presume there is a 
third edition coming soon with a purple cover.
-- 
Jim McMaster
mailto:mcmaster at falcon.stortek.com


In message <87ya1ui1ye.fsf at peakpeak.com>, Chris Riddoch said:
> "B O'Fallon" <bof at americanisp.net> writes:
> > FYI, SoftPro says that their copies of th purple book will not be in until 
> 7
> > September, as the book is not being released until the end of August.
> > 
> > BOF
> 
> Perhaps somebody might want to post the title, author, and general
> subject matter of the "Purple book" so this thread might mean
> something to the rest of us?  I refer to a Camel book occasionally,
> but I don't expect everybody in a large audience like a mailing list
> to get the reference.
> 
> The camel book, by the way, is Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and
> Randal Schwartz's book, "Programming Perl", the dead-tree resource for
> Perl programmers.  (Just so I'm not leaving someone confused by
> references.)
> 
> --
> Chris Riddoch
> socket at peakpeak.com
> 
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