At 15:15 -0600 2003.01.03, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: >Adam Turoff [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: >*> >*>Really? I flipped through it in the bookstore and didn't find much >*>of value to a long-time UNIX user. Specifically, I wanted to see much >*>more discussion about netinfo and other darwin/osx-isms that you don't >*>find on other *NIXes. The coverage of netinfo was pretty much limited >*>to "there's a utility called nidump, and another called niutil", but no >*>coverage on how to add a new group, etc. > >It was originally titled "Mac OS for Unix Developers" but Jarkko and I >both gave it a scathing review since it was nothing more than a bunch of >lists of commands and such for 95% of the book with a brief section on >packaging which was decent. However, none of the content, at least in the >first round of tech reviews, was worth the cover price vs. getting the >free ADC documentation on-line from Apple. From your description, I doubt >much has changed since they pushed back the production date, changed the >title and didn't include us in the second round of tech reviews.
The only thing I tried to find out from that book was how to use some of the command line tools in /Developer/Tools/. And it gave nothing more than a brief description, with no explanation, for each. -- Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pudge.net/ Open Source Development Network [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://osdn.com/ _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
