RE: [book] how "compatible" are FreeBSD and "Advanced Programming in the UNIX ..."?

2000-09-22 Thread John Lispton
Hi all, Thank you for all the helpful replies. Tomorrow I'll go shopping. :) Cheers, J Lispton _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own

[book] how "compatible" are FreeBSD and "Advanced Programming in the UNIX ..."?

2000-09-22 Thread John Lispton
Hi I am a fair C programmer, and would like to start developing under FreeBSD; would you consider the classic «Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment», by W. Richard Stevens to be a good choice for a programming book? Does current FreeBSD programming differ much from the "generic" UNIX