APPENDIX A

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Internet Scripting Resources

Avast amount of information about shell scripting is on the Internet. One of the most useful, and where one can learned a great deal, is the Usenet newsgroup comp.unix.shell. Its archives can be searched at http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.unix.shell, but for posting, using your own newsreader is recommended over the Google form. There’s no shortage of newsreaders, both text based and GUI: tin, slrn, and pan to name a few, as well as combined mail and newsreaders, such as pine and Mozilla Thunderbird.

Listed here are a number of useful web sites. The WWW is notorious for changing locations, and ...

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