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"Windows NT Desktop Reference", Aeleen Frisch, 1998, 1-56592-437-1,
U$6.95/C$9.95
%A   Aeleen Frisch
%C   103 Morris Street, Suite A, Sebastopol, CA   95472
%D   1998
%G   1-56592-437-1
%I   O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
%O   U$6.95/C$9.95 707-829-0515 fax: 707-829-0104 nuts@ora.com
%P   64 p.
%T   "Windows NT Desktop Reference"

Step right up ladies and gentlemen and see this genuinely useful
little pamphlet.  It remembers.  It prompts.  It even suggests.  It
doesn't explain, but hey, what do you want for under ten bucks?

At only sixty four pages thin, and the size of a paperback, its only
about as big as a three-and-a-half-inch floppy.  Well, maybe more like
*two* floppies.  But you can stick it in behind your plastic pocket
pen protector and nobody'll be any the wiser.  Except you.

Yessireebob, little lady, it's got all the commands from NT *and* the
Resource Kit, grouped under the topics help, general purpose,
administrative, directories, files, disks and filesystems, Registry,
network, TCP/IP, processes, services, and users and groups.  A two
page chart lists all the commands (well, yes ma'am, I grant you it
would have been more helpful to print them on opposing pages) while
the rest of the book gives the command, arguments, a brief
description, and options.

Nossir, we *haven't* forgotten the WIMPs.  The GUI administrative
tools are listed, along with the filenames for invokin' 'em from the
command line, should you be of a mind to do so.  There's also a right
handy little list of GUI tips and tricks, including a bunch of
keyboard shortcuts.  (Well, now that you mention it, I'd have use for
the keyboard shortcut to jump from item to item around the screen
myself, for those times when the dang rodent's gone belly up.)  And
for not one cent more, you also get a collection of Windows NT related
Web site resources.

Now look here kid, I wouldn't be shillin' for this here text if'n I
didn't believe in it.  It took me all of ten minutes to read through
it the first time, and in that one pass I learned of a couple of
commands that I didn't know about, and figure I'll have to put to use
right soon to see how they work.  The only reason this won't be right
out on my desk is I figure some varmint might just make off with it if
I do.

copyright Robert M. Slade, 1998   BKWNTDTR.RVW   980305