Title: Solaris 8 for beginners
Review: Caution, this is a book for beginners without any serious experience with Unix-like operating systems. Instead of focusing on the differences between Solaris and other Unix variants, it attempts to cover all that is Unix. Necessarily, this can not be done in any great detail in a single volume, even if it is nearly seven hundred pages long. In addition, you get wide margins, large print and pages and pages of listings --- not only of configuration files, but also of command output. Do you really need a two-page listing of directory sizes to explain du? I think not.If Watters and Veeraraghavan were paid by the page, they surely optimized their revenue. If not, I fail to understand why they neglected one of the basic tenets of Unix: brevity.
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