Part VI: The Part of Tens
In This Part:
Chapter 25: Ten Common Mistakes
Chapter 26: Ten Times More Information Than You Want about UNIX
In this part . . .
UNIX uses many commands, programs, options, and other stuff — much more than we can pack into this book. The real, official manuals for a UNIX system, back when computers came with printed manuals, took up about three feet of shelf space. (For cost savings, all the pages of these manuals were blank because no one ever read them, but if you don’t tell, neither will we.) In this part of the book, we organize facts into neat lists of ten (actually, two lists) so that they’re easier to remember. Astute readers may claim that neither of these lists contains exactly ten items. Well, we use mixed radix arithmetic (survivors of New Math in school may remember some of this subject from fourth grade), so a chapter with eight items has ten items counting in base 12, and a chapter — what? You say that we can’t bamboozle you with such nonsense? Truth is, we can’t count.Read on — good stuff is in this part, regardless of the numbers.