NEW BOOK WITH "SHRINK-WRAPPED" SOFTWARE LETS YOU BECOME A UNIX POWER USER

An O'Reilly & Associates Inc/Bantam Book

SEBASTOPOL, CA - February 26, 1993 -- In the tradition of the classic
bestseller, DOS Power Tools, UNIX Power Tools (March 1003/1,119 pages/one
CD-ROM disk/$59.95/ISBN 0-553-35402-7) is the definitive resource on the
UNIX operating system for intermediate-to-advanced users. Complete with a
CD-ROM disk containing the best public domain software available for UNIX,
UNIX Power Tools offers a wealth of solutions-based tips, tricks, and
concepts that will help users harness the power of the UNIX environment.

Written by Jerry Peek, Tim O'Reilly, and Mike Loukides, the authors and
editors of the best-selling Nutshell Handbooks on UNIX, UNIX Power Tools
is co-published by Bantam Computer Books and O'Reilly & Associates, the
leading publisher of books covering UNIX.

"I think we have successfully combined our talents to produce a work that
is unlike any other computer book that I've ever seen," said Ron Petrusha,
Bantam's editorial director and editor of UNIX Power Tools. "This book
will definitely be an instant classic of UNIX publishing."

Unlike most UNIX books, which are intended to be read cover-to-cover, UNIX
Power Tools is a browser's book, designed in an easy-to-follow two-color
format that invites corss-referencing and helps users find the specific
tools they need to become more efficient.

The book consists of 55 topically organized chapters, each of which
contains short (less than two pages) articles culled from the experiences
of some of the best-known authorities in the UNIX community. Every major
aspect of the UNIX operating system is covered, including basic design,
file management, managing devices, communications and networking, editing
text, writing scripts, handling processes, and customizing the UNIX
environment.

UNIX POWER TOOLS CD-ROM

The included CD-ROM contains not just the source code but pre-complied
binaries for all the best free software UNIX power users need to maximize
productivity. Binaries are provided for Sun 3, Sun 4, SCO UNIX, SCO Xenix,
IBM RS/6000, and DECstation platforms. The disk is an ISO-9660 format with
Rock Ridge extensions, so it's mountable as a UNIX filesystem. Programs
can be run right from the disk or installed on the hard disk. The programs
are available on alternate media for an extra cost.

In choosing the software for this collection, the authors have stayed away
from programs that are useful only to systems administrators or
programmers, or programs that require a workstation window system to run.
Included are:

Perl, an interpreted language that provides a superset of sed, awk, and
shell programming, plus many unique features. Perl has become the
preferred tool for many UNIX system administrators, but it's also
wonderful for users.

Gnu Emacs, the most powerful text editor available for UNIX.

pnmplus, a collection of utilities for manipulating bitmap, color and
grayscale images, and converting between image formats.

sc, a powerful spreadsheet program that runs on an ASCII terminal.

ispell, an interactive spelling checker that will make you wonder how you
ever put up with the UNIX spell programs.

screen, a utility that allows you to "detach" a login session so you can
resume it from another terminal.

Every shell, sed, and awk script that's described in the book.

Many other useful programs, including a version of grep that finds matches
that are only "approximately right," alternate shells like bash and tesh,
enhanced GNU versions of programs like awk, tar, and find, as well as
versions of many useful utilities that are found on some but not all UNIX
systems including compress, patch, and RCS (Revision Control System).

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Jerry Peek is a user consultant and writer for O'Reilly & Associates. He
has been a programmer, UNIX user consultant, course developer and trainer.
His most recent book was MH & xmh: Email For Users and Programmers
(O'Reilly, 1992).

Tim O'Reilly is founder and president of O'Reilly & Associates, publisher
of X Window System Series and the popular Nutshell Handbooks for UNIX and
the Internet. He has written or edited many technical books.

Mike Loukides is an editor with O'Reilly & Associates. He previously worked
at Multiflow Computer, where he created all of Multiflow's documentation
on programming languages.

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