Chapter 1: Log Me In, UNIX!
Chapter 2: What Is UNIX, Anyway?
Why you should fight rather than switch
Technical Stuff You can disregard this discussion about the true nature of shells
Technical Stuff Who says the C shell isn’t user-friendly?
Tip Ending command lines without hard feelings
Warning Don’t turn off the computer if you make a typo!
Tip The UNIX cast of special characters
Chapter 3: A Few Lines on Linux
You say to-may-to, I say tomahto
Chapter 4: Opening Windows on UNIX
Linux FVWM: The chameleon of window managers
Tip How do I start Motif, anyway?
Tip How do I leave Motif, anyway?
Telling lawn gnomes from GNOME
Chapter 5: Files for Fun and Profit
Tip For shell-less Web site owners
Tip Making a long listing stop and start when you’re ready
Technical Stuff Why those numbers?
Chapter 6: Directories for Fun and Profit
Technical Stuff Getting the big picture
Chapter 7: The Shell Game
Warning Look before you delete!
Technical Stuff Instant script — just add water
Chapter 8: Where’s That File?
Technical Stuff Links to shadow files
Tip Linking once and linking twice
Chapter 9: Printing (The Gutenberg Thing)
Tip Woodsman, spare that file!
Technical Stuff Why you don’t want to know about PostScript
Chapter 10: Writing Deathless Prose
Tip More than just a text editor
Tip What if ed commands end up in my text?
Chapter 11: Umpteen Useful UNIX Utilities
Technical Stuff How does file compression work, anyway?
Chapter 12: Installing Software Can Be Tricky
Technical Stuff Your search path
Tip Don’t give me any arguments!
Chapter 13: Juggling a Bunch of Programs
Technical Stuff Why processes are not programs and vice versa
Technical Stuff Why cd isn’t a process
Tip Do windows and job control mix?
Tip Taming background terminal output
Chapter 14: Taming Linux
Windows users of the world, unite!
Chapter 16: Across a Crowded Network
How do I get networked, anyway?
Technical Stuff Why NFS is out of state
Chapter 17: Automating Your Office Gossip
All the news that’s fit to print
Tip Sending mail to people who use online services
Tip What’s all this junk at the beginning of the message?
Chapter 18: Web Surfing for UNIX Users
Tip There’s no place like home
The text, the whole text, and nothing but the text
Technical Stuff Here’s HTML in your eye!
Chapter 19: Grabbing Files from the Net
Technical Stuff What’s with all these three-digit numbers?
Chapter 20: Now Serving the Internet
We’re from AOL, and we’re here to give you a really good Web server for free
Chapter 22: The Case of the Missing Files
Technical Stuff Links, copies, moves, truncations, and other details about file destruction
Chapter 23: Some Programs Just Won’t Die