<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>This looks like a really useful UNIX for beginners tutorial, starting with the very, very basics. There is a section on deleting files, so you can make sure you're not accidentally deleting everything.</div><div><br></div><a href="http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/">http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Teaching/Unix/</a><br><div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>On Dec 13, 2008, at 12:25 PM, John McChesney-Young wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>David Derbes wrote in part:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">First, David Pogue's books on Mac OS X are very useful ...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Next, I have always liked Harley Hahn's The Student's Guide to Unix...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Finally, there may well be a really good guide to Unix for the Mac from O'Reilly or on-line.<br></blockquote><br>I second all three suggestions. Both Pogue and Hahn are exceptionally readable, although Hahn (at least in my older version of the Unix book) goes into great detail and I find it overwhelming to read in large doses.<br><br>To add some titles to the O'Reilly suggestion, Dave Taylor's _Learning Unix for Mac OS X Tiger_ has a Tiger kitten on the cover, and it's a nice gentle approach that assumes only the most basic knowledge of Mac OS X, but with a great deal of content in its 260 pages.<br><br>For a more advanced book, there's _Mac OS X Tiger for Unix Geeks_:<br><br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mac-OS-Tiger-Unix-Geeks/dp/0596009127/">http://www.amazon.com/Mac-OS-Tiger-Unix-Geeks/dp/0596009127/</a> (for 10.4, obviously)<br><br>and the recently released revision for 10.5 (with a leopard on the cover), _Mac OS X For Unix Geeks_<br><br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mac-OS-X-Unix-Geeks/dp/059652062X/">http://www.amazon.com/Mac-OS-X-Unix-Geeks/dp/059652062X/</a><br><br>Many O'Reilly books (most? all?) are available on-line through Safari Books:<br><br>http://www.safaribooksonline.com/<br><br>which isn't cheap, at least by my standards:<br><br>http://www.safaribooksonline.com/whysafari/buy-individual.php<br><br>but which I'm able to access for free through my local public library; it might be worthwhile to check whether any of the institutions or organizations list members are affiliated with have a similar arrangement.<br><br>John<br><br><br>-- <br>John McChesney-Young ~ jmccyoung at gmail dot com ~ Berkeley, California<br> http://jmccyoung.blogspot.com<br>----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br>TeX FAQ: http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq<br>List Reminders and Etiquette: http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/list/<br>List Archive: http://tug.org/pipermail/macostex-archives/<br>TeX on Mac OS X Website: http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/<br>List Info: http://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div><br>------------------</div><div><div>Adam M. Goldstein PhD, MSLIS</div><div>--</div><div><a href="mailto:agoldstein@iona.edu">agoldstein@iona.edu</a></div><div><a href="mailto:a.m.goldstein@mac.com">a.m.goldstein@mac.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.iona.edu/faculty/agoldstein">http://www.iona.edu/faculty/agoldstein</a></div><div>--</div><div>(914) 637-2717</div><div>--</div><div>Dept of Philosophy</div><div>Iona College</div><div>715 North Avenue</div><div>New Rochelle NY 10801</div></div> </div><br></body></html>