[KLUG Members] Re: Books to learn from

[Adam Williams]

>>"Learning vi Edit(or)" O'Reilly
>Good if you plan on using vi alot, otherwise get the pocket reference.

And it is hardly an intro topic,  most people are really intimidates by
vi.

>>"Effective awk Programming" O'Reilly
>Do you plan on using awk.  It is capable and simpler than perl, but it
>is no perl.  Perl was written to combine sed and awk and more.  Perl is
>more capable, higher learning curve.

There is a presentation idea!  Translating awk scripts into perl.  Say
if I want to do the same type of thing in perl that I do everyday in awk
- I'd find that helpful since I'm no perl monkey, but use awk everyday
(my UNIX usage/training predates perl).

>>"Sendmail" O'Reilly
>You want to learn quasi-inverse-reverse-sendmail-programming.  I'll let
>you look at mine for a meeting and you will never want to open it again.

Pretty much.  If the m4 directive section was larger I'd use this book a
lot more, but as it is, it is a last resort (but essential) reference;
but loaded with devilishly complicated arcana.