BKPIWTAU.RVW 931130 Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. Kelly Ford, Promotion/Publicity Coordinator Heather Rignanesi, Marketing, x340, 73171.657@Compuserve.com P.O. Box 520 26 Prince Andrew Place Don Mills, Ontario M3C 2T8 416-447-5101 fax: 416-443-0948 or Tiffany Moore, Publicity tiffanym@aw.com Bob Donegon bobd@aw.com John Wait, Editor, Corporate and Professional Publishing johnw@aw.com Tom Stone, Editor, Higher Education Division tomsto@aw.com 1 Jacob Way Reading, MA 01867-9984 800-822-6339 617-944-3700 Fax: (617) 944-7273 5851 Guion Road Indianapolis, IN 46254 800-447-2226 "Practical Internetworking with TCP/IP and UNIX", Carl-Mitchell/Quarterman, 0-201-58629-0, 1993 tic@tic.com smoot@tic.com Another good explanatory title. For those who need to connect a UNIX machine to the Internet, this is a one-stop reference for most of the basic necessities. The book starts with a historical and conceptual backgrounder on the Internet. This first section also gives technical and even some programming details on the basic IP, TCP and UDP protocols. The technical level is advanced, but fully explained for the perseverent newcomer. Part two is the practical side. Four chapters give the basics of the setup, email, sendmail and other services. For a standard system, this could be almost all you need to get running. Part three covers advanced topics such as the integration of microcomputers, network management and debugging. It is nice to see a work that addresses the issues of micros, which are ubiquitous in the usual workplace. It is equally nice to see a practical approach, such as the suggestion to use terminal emulation if such will fill the bill. (It is amusing to see a mild tendency towards UNIX chauvinism in such subtle ways as the use of the UNIX default lower case filename convention applied to the case insensitive/upper case MS- DOS file system.) Appendices give tips on the use of various Internet services as well as some useful utility program listings. As always with Quarterman's writings, there are extensive biliographic and reference listings. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1993 BKPIWTAU.RVW 931130 ====================== DECUS Canada Communications, Desktop, Education and Security group newsletters Editor and/or reviewer ROBERTS@decus.ca, RSlade@sfu.ca, Rob Slade at 1:153/733 Author "Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses" (Oct. '94) Springer-Verlag