Re: reference to book or site requested

On Sep 30, 2004, at 3:12 PM, Peter Ulvskov wrote:

> Either I have to put the nedit executable somewhere special or tell 
> the system that a new command has been installed.

Yes, if it's not in a standard location, you have to add it to your 
path. Since you said you are using Linux, I'm going to assume you are 
using the bash shell, so you might do something like:

PATH=$PATH:/path/to/nedit

then you should just be able to type nedit  (You can put the previous 
command in the .bashrc file so it works everytime you log in).

>
> Most UNIX books that I have come across are either too simple and 
> assumes that you never need to install or compile anything, or they 
> are written for knowledgeable UNIX programmers who don't have problems 
> of this  sort but need to know what a Mac is. Where is the book (or 
> web-site) for the Mac savvy programmer who is an absolute beginner 
> when it comes to UNIX development?
>

I don't really know of any good Unix books, but you might search on 
line for various tutorials (from google, search for: beginner UNIX). 
Here's one I found:

http://csep1.phy.ornl.gov/unix_guide/unix_guide.html

Also if you bought your system software from a particular place 
(redhat, debian, or whomever), you could go to their web site for some 
more specific documentation