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Preface -

UNIX Systems Programming for SVR4
David A. Curry
 Copyright © 1996 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Assumptions
This book does not teach the C programming language—although fluency in the language is not required, it is assumed that you can at least read a C program and figure out what it does.
All of the examples in this book are written in ANSI C. While there are some differences between ANSI C and K&R C, you shouldn't have any trouble following along even if you've never seen ANSI C before. However, if you are new to ANSI C, you may wish to skip ahead and read Appendix A, Significant Changes in ANSI C first.
This book also assumes that you are a reasonably savvy UNIX user. You should be familiar with terms such as file, directory, user ID, environment variable, process ID, and so forth. You should also be familiar with your system's C compiler, debugger, and the make utility. If you haven't learned these things yet, or would like to refresh your memory, you may find the following books, also published by O'Reilly & Associates, helpful:
 Learning the UNIX Operating System by Grace Todino, John Strang, and Jerry Peek
 UNIX in a Nutshell: System V Edition by Daniel Gilly and the staff of O'Reilly & Associates
 Managing Projects With Make by Andrew Oram and Steve Talbott
 Practical C Programming by Steve Oualline
See the pages at the end of this book for information on how to order these and other O'Reilly & Associates titles.

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