UNIX programming is fundamentally unique. Curry admits that he is not concerned with teaching C programming. He assumes a comfortable knowledge of C and concerns himself with the peculiarities of SVR4. There is an ORA ftp site from where the code can be downloaded. As an example of peculiarity consider UNIX and dumb terminals.
Any writer has to deal with a barrage of complexity here.
Not only can UNIX terminals vary between ANSI consoles and DEC VT220s, but the UNIX community has historically supported two different and incompatible interfaces. He does not attempt to cover the eccentricities associated with SCO UNIX or Linux or many of the other UNIX flavours. For those who want to find out how to access the innards of OS functions in SVR4, this book makes a useful contribution. Last Update - 11 September 2001. All rights reserved.