From: htoaster@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: books
Date: Wed Jun  8 12:27:06 1994

I mostly use man pages and whatever cool source I can find on the net.  For
instance when writing yabbs I learned sockets by poking around in some
socket stuff I found on the net (telnetd a lot, other stuff a bit), reading
man pages, and for my first intro to them going to the library at school
and photocopying a 10 page intro to sockets.

I would highly reccomend a copy of "The Design and Implementation of 4.3BSD"
though.  It is pretty much the only computer book that I've kept in my 
collection since I've owned it, along with K&R (new testament).

If you don't like man pages apparantly O'Reilly is making books of pretty much
all of the 4.4BSD man pages, so you might invest in them.  Gopher to
gopher.ora.com and look around there.

alex