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"Using SCO UNIX" Table Of Contents:

• 1- Introduction
• 2- Why This Book Is for You
• 3- An Overview of SCO UNIX
• 4- The Development of SCO UNIX
• 5- Early UNIX
• 6- Versions of UNIX
• 7- Enter SCO UNIX
• 8- Which SCO System Is Best?
• 9- SCO UNIX Features and Benefits
• 10- Inexpensive and Diverse Hardware
• 11- Multiuser and Multitasking
• 12- Hierarchical File Structure
• 13- Utilities
• 14- I/O Redirection and Pipes
• 15- Shells
• 16- Text Processing
• 17- Mail
• 18- The Development System
• 19- Linking to Other Systems
• 20- The Structure of UNIX
• 21- A Typical Hardware System
• 22- Software Components
• 23- SCO Business Applications
• 24- The SCO Office Portfolio
• 25- Other Licensed Products
• 26- Third-Party Products
• 27- The XENIX and UNIX System Documentation
• 28- Other Standard Operating Systems
• 29- Who Buys SCO UNIX Systems?
• 30- The Future of the SCO UNIX System
• 31- Open Desktop
• 32- Installing the System
• 33- Hardware Checklist
• 34- Memory
• 35- Hard Disk
• 36- Hard Disk Controller
• 37- Serial Cards
• 38- Multiport Boards
• 39- Terminals
• 40- Computer
• 41- Floppy Disk Drive
• 42- Tape Drive
• 43- A Typical SCO UNIX System Setup
• 44- Software Considerations
• 45- Separate UNIX and DOS Partitions on the Same Hard Disk
• 46- The Operating System and Other Software
• 47- Swap Space
• 48- Filesystems
• 49- The /tmp Directory
• 50- Free Space
• 51- Installation Procedure
• 52- Automatic Installation
• 53- Primary Formatting of the Hard Disk
• 54- Installing the Distribution Floppy Disks
• 55- Installing Device Drivers
• 56- Installing Additional Software
• 57- Setting Up Data Directories
• 58- Adding User Accounts
• 59- Creating an Account
• 60- Setting Up an Account
• 61- Home Directories
• 62- Login Shells
• 63- Groups
• 64- Using Your Account
• 65- Logging In
• 66- The Login Prompt
• 67- The Password Prompt
• 68- System Messages
• 69- Setting Your Terminal Type
• 70- Communicating with the Computer
• 71- Using SCO UNIX Commands
• 72- Correcting Mistakes
• 73- System Information
• 74- Displaying the Date and Time - date
• 75- Displaying a Calendar - cal
• 76- Displaying Your User Name and Number-id
• 77- Listing Other Users on the System - who
• 78- Displaying Information About a User - finger
• 79- Reading System News Items - news
• 80- Displaying Your Terminal Line - tty
• 81- Viewing the On-Line Manual Pages - man
• 82- Modifying Your Environment
• 83- Clearing the Terminal Screen - clear
• 84- Locking Your Terminal - lock
• 85- Keeping Your Account Secure - passwd
• 86- Displaying and Setting Terminal Parameters - stty
• 87- Communicating with Other Users
• 88- Writing to Another User's Terminal - write and hello
• 89- Making a Terminal Writable - mesg
• 90- Sending and Reading Electronic Mail - mail
• 91- Logging Out
• 92- Files and Directories
• 93- Getting Acquainted with Files and Directories
• 94- What Is a File?
• 95- What Is a Directory?
• 96- File and Directory Access Permissions
• 97- Pathnames
• 98- Wildcard Characters
• 99- Working with Files
• 100- Creating and Viewing Files
• 101- Removing Files
• 102- Copying Files
• 103- Moving and Renaming Files
• 104- Determining File Types
• 105- Changing Access Permissions of a File or Directory
• 106- Working with Directories
• 107- Your Home Directory
• 108- The Current Directory
• 109- Listing the Contents of a Directory
• 110- Creating Directories
• 111- Removing Directories
• 112- Moving to a Different Directory
• 113- Renaming Directories
• 114- Locating a File or Directory
• 115- Command Line Fundamentals
• 116- Executing Commands Consecutively
• 117- Executing Commands Conditionally
• 118- Input and Output
• 119- Standard Input
• 120- Standard Output
• 121- Standard Error
• 122- Redirection Symbols
• 123- Redirecting Standard Input
• 124- Redirecting Standard Output
• 125- Redirecting Standard Error
• 126- Pipes
• 127- The tee Command
• 128- The Backquote
• 129- Executing Commands in the Background
• 130- Interrupting Command Execution
• 131- Quoting Special Characters
• 132- Filters
• 133- Viewing and Formatting Input
• 134- Sending Standard Input to Standard Output - cat
• 135- Displaying Input by Screenfuls - more and pg
• 136- Paginating Input - pr
• 137- Regular Expressions
• 138- Selecting Part of the Input
• 139- Displaying the Beginning or End of the Input - head and tail
• 140- Searching for a Pattern - grep
• 141- Finding Duplicate Input Lines - uniq
• 142- Splitting Input into Output Files of Equal Length - split
• 143- Editing or Altering Input
• 144- Editing the Input - sed
• 145- Translating Input Characters - tr
• 146- The Wonder Utility - awk
• 147- Editing and Text Processing
• 148- The Three Modes of vi
• 149- Getting In and Out of vi
• 150- Starting vi
• 151- Getting into Insert Mode - Typing Ordinary Text
• 152- Getting out of Insert Mode - Executing Commands
• 153- Saving Your File and Exiting from vi
• 154- Moving Around in a File
• 155- Moving to a Particular Character
• 156- Moving One Word at a Time
• 157- Moving a Sentence at a Time
• 158- Moving to a Different Line
• 159- Making Changes to a File
• 160- Marking Text
• 161- Deleting Text
• 162- Copying Text
• 163- Moving Text
• 164- Changing Text
• 165- Retrieving Text
• 166- Repeating Commands
• 167- Undoing Changes
• 168- Searching
• 169- Searching Forward
• 170- Searching Backward
• 171- Repeating a Search
• 172- Substitution
• 173- Writing Files and Partial Files to the Disk
• 174- Reading in Other Files
• 175- Modifying Your Environment
• 176- Environment Options
• 177- Abbreviations
• 178- Mapping
• 179- The .exrc File
• 180- Executing Shell Commands from Within vi
• 181- Shell Escapes
• 182- Placing the Results of a Shell Command in the File
• 183- Filtering All or Part of a File
• 184- Command Line Options
• 185- A Quick Reference to vi Commands
• 186- Text Formatting with the nroff Formatter
• 187- Macros
• 188- Fill and Justification
• 189- Paragraphs
• 190- Section Headings
• 191- Lists
• 192- Displays
• 193- Headers and Footers
• 194- Page Formatting
• 195- Line Breaks
• 196- Spacing
• 197- Centering
• 198- Temporary Indent
• 199- Fonts
• 200- Running nroff
• 201- Printing Your Formatted File
• 202- Printing
• 203- The Printer Spooling System
• 204- Print Requests
• 205- Printer Destination
• 206- Printer Classes
• 207- Printer Forms
• 208- Print Wheels
• 209- Sending a Print Request - lp
• 210- The Request ID
• 211- Print Options
• 212- Canceling a Print Request - cancel
• 213- Reporting the Status of a Printer - lpstat
• 214- Status Options
• 215- Printing at Your Terminal - lprint
• 216- Printing with the pr Filter
• 217- Printing with nroff
• 218- Sending and Receiving Mail
• 219- Variations on a Theme
• 220- Modes and Commands of mail
• 221- Sending Mail
• 222- Sending a Letter to One Person or Many People
• 223- Killing a Letter
• 224- Reviewing Your Letter
• 225- Enclosing a File in Your Letter
• 226- Sending a File with mail
• 227- Writing a Letter Using an Editor
• 228- Sending Mail to Other Computers
• 229- Getting Help While Sending Mail
• 230- Receiving Mail
• 231- Reading Your Messages
• 232- The mail Message
• 233- Exiting mail
• 234- Listing Your Messages
• 235- Message Lists
• 236- Replying to Messages
• 237- Originating Mail from Within mail
• 238- Deleting Messages
• 239- Holding Messages
• 240- Saving Messages
• 241- Getting Help While Reading Mail
• 242- Modifying Your Environment
• 243- Modifying Your .mailrc File
• 244- Aliases
• 245- Environment Variables
• 246- The Bourne Shell
• 247- Shells, Commands, and Scripts
• 248- Shell Variables
• 249- User Variables
• 250- Environment Variables
• 251- Positional Parameters
• 252- Special Variables
• 253- Shell Programming
• 254- Shell Scripts
• 255- Comments and Programming Style
• 256- Supporting Commands
• 257- Conditional Evaluation: test
• 258- Control Commands
• 259- Conditional Commands: if
• 260- The Multiple Choice Command: case
• 261- Looping Commands: for
• 262- Conditional Looping: while and until
• 263- Controlling Loops: break and continue
• 264- Getting Out: exit
• 265- The Here Document
• 266- Modifying Your Environment
• 267- Modifying Your .profile
• 268- Environment Variables in Your .profile
• 269- Setting Terminal Options
• 270- The C Shell
• 271- Shells, Commands, and Scripts
• 272- The History List
• 273- Recalling a Previous Command
• 274- Recalling Parts of a Previous Command
• 275- Modifying a Previous Command
• 276- Aliases
• 277- Creating an Alias
• 278- Displaying Aliases
• 279- Argument Substitution Within an Alias
• 280- Shell Variables
• 281- User Variables
• 282- Environment Variables
• 283- Positional Parameters
• 284- Special Variables
• 285- Shell Programming
• 286- Shell Scripts
• 287- Comments and Programming Style
• 288- Supporting Commands
• 289- Expressions
• 290- Repeating Commands: repeat
• 291- Control Commands
• 292- Conditional Commands: if
• 293- Multiple Choice Commands: switch
• 294- Looping Commands: foreach
• 295- Conditional Looping: while
• 296- Controlling Loops: break and continue
• 297- Unconditional Jump: goto
• 298- Getting Out: exit
• 299- The Here Document
• 300- Modifying Your Environment
• 301- Modifying Your .cshrc
• 302- Modifying Your .login
• 303- Setting Terminal Options
• 304- System Administration
• 305- Who Is the System Administrator?
• 306- A Few Words of Caution
• 307- The System Administration Shell - sysadmsh
• 308- Installing the System Software
• 309- Starting and Stopping the System
• 310- Starting Up the System
• 311- Shutting Down the System
• 312- Backing Up the System
• 313- Frequency of Backups
• 314- Creating a Backup Schedule
• 315- Tapes Versus Floppy Disks
• 316- Performing a Backup
• 317- Restoring Backups
• 318- Alternative Backup Methods
• 319- Creating a Schedule of Jobs
• 320- Using Printers
• 321- Installing Printers
• 322- Configuring Printers
• 323- Establishing Printer Classes
• 324- Starting and Stopping the Print Service
• 325- Administering User Accounts
• 326- Changing Systemwide Defaults
• 327- Changing the Defaults for an Account
• 328- Setting Up the /u Filesystem or Directory
• 329- Adding Hardware and Device Drivers
• 330- Installing a Dial-Out Only Modem
• 331- Installing a Dial-In Modem
• 332- Configuring a Modem for Both Dial-In and Dial-Out
• 333- Multiport Boards
• 334- Terminals
• 335- Fixing System Problems
• 336- Listing System Problems with fixperm
• 337- A Printer That Won't Print
• 338- Lost or Corrupted Files
• 339- Restoring Lost or Dead User Passwords
• 340- Restoring a Lost root Password
• 341- Communicating Using the UUCP System
• 342- Basic File Transfer Using UUCP
• 343- More Advanced UUCP Operation
• 344- Forcing a UUCP Connection
• 345- Listing Other Sites
• 346- Correcting Problems
• 347- Executing Commands on Remote Systems
• 348- UUCP and Electronic Mail
• 349- File Transfer Using Mail
• 350- Checking the Status of UUCP Requests
• 351- Checking the Status of UUCP Connections
• 352- Canceling a UUCP Request
• 353- Keeping a UUCP Request from Expiring
• 354- Interactive Communications
• 355- Calling Another Computer
• 356- Tilde Commands
• 357- File Transfer Using cu
• 358- Session Recording
• 359- Error Messages
• 360- Receiving Calls from Remote Systems
• 361- UUCP System Administration
• 362- Setting Up UUCP Devices
• 363- Defining Remote Computers
• 364- Giving Access Permissions to Remote Systems
• 365- Cleaning Up Outdated Files
• 366- Displaying Recorded UUCP Activity
• 367- Using MS-DOS Under UNIX
• 368- Utilities for Accessing MS-DOS Files
• 369- UNIX Device Files for MS-DOS Access
• 370- Listing Files on MS-DOS Disks
• 371- Transferring MS-DOS Files
• 372- Transferring Multiple Files
• 373- Other MS-DOS Operations
• 374- Using VP/ix to Run MS-DOS Programs Under UNIX
• 375- VP/ix System Requirements
• 376- Accessing IBM PC Hardware
• 377- Adding Nonstandard Hardware
• 378- Starting VP/ix
• 379- The VP/ix Operating Environment
• 380- Pseudo Disk Drives
• 381- UNIX File Name Conversion Under VP/ix
• 382- Executing UNIX Commands from VP/ix
• 383- Executing MS-DOS Programs from the UNIX Shell Prompt
• 384- Exchanging Data Between UNIX and MS-DOS Commands
• 385- MS-DOS and UNIX Special Command Line Characters
• 386- Translating MS-DOS and UNIX Text Files
• 387- Redirected MS-DOS Disk Drives
• 388- VP/ix and UNIX File Permissions
• 389- Quick-Starting VP/ix
• 390- Running MS-DOS Programs as Background Tasks
• 391- Running VP/ix on Serial Terminals
• 392- Solving Common VP/ix Problems
• 393- VP/ix Configuration
• 394- Setting Up Your VP/ix Configuration File
• 395- An Overview of SCO Business Software
• 396- The SCO Office Portfolio Suite
• 397- SCO Manager
• 398- Running Applications
• 399- Managing Files
• 400- Printing
• 401- Running Utilities
• 402- Configuring the Manager Desktop
• 403- Mail
• 404- Calendar
• 405- Intercom
• 406- User Directory
• 407- SCO Professional
• 408- The Professional Worksheet
• 409- Formulas
• 410- Commands
• 411- Macros
• 412- @Functions
• 413- Using Multiple Worksheets
• 414- SQL Queries
• 415- Compatibility with 1-2-3
• 416- SCO Lyrix
• 417- The Lyrix Manager Menu
• 418- The Lyrix Editor
• 419- The Lyrix Mail Merge Feature
• 420- SCO Integra
• 421- What Is an Integra Database?
• 422- Relating Database Tables
• 423- How Does Integra Work?
• 424- The Integra Menu System
• 425- Using SQL
• 426- Customizing Integra with ACCELL
• 427- SCO Statistician
• 428- SCO Masterplan
• 429- SCO ImageBuilder
• 430- ImageBuilder's Main Menu
• 431- The Draw Module
• 432- The Chart Module
• 433- Microsoft Word
• 434- The Word Menu
• 435- The Word Feature Set
• 436- SCO FoxBASE+
• 437- Creating a FoxBASE+ Database
• 438- The FoxBASE Dot Prompt
• 439- Creating a Command File Program
• 440- Using Multiple Databases
• 441- Indexes
• 442- Format Files
• 443- Labels
• 444- Reports
• 445- Compiling FoxBASE+ Programs
• 446- Installing the SCO Business Series Software
• 447- Command Reference
• 448- Communication
• 449- Text Processing
• 450- File and Directory Management
• 451- System Information
• 452- Data Manipulation
• 453- Process Control
• 454- Terminal Control
• 455- Printing
• 456- Shell Management
• 457- Software Reference
• 458- XENIX and UNIX Operating Systems
• 459- Business Applications
• 460- Software Development
• 461- Communications
• 462- Text Processing
• 463- Index

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