March 27, 1992


This training material on Unix is from the Information resources 
training people at Denver's Bureau of Reclamation.  Take it for what 
it's worth to you; you paid for it, and probably far more than you 
would think.  Like all bureaucrats, the author of these documents 
wishes to remain anonymous.  I have stripped down the Nerdperfect 
originals to ascii text.  The Bourne Shell one might have the most 
meaning but decide for yourself.  This material is provided, as is, with 
ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY as to its accuracy or usefulness.  If you whole 
life is ruined as a result of seeing this brain damaged material, 
complain to the Bureau of Reclamation, the President, or your 
congressperson, not me! 

The multimax Unix is a conglomeration of Sys V R3.2 with some BSD 
stuff thrown in for good measure, based on my very brief review. 

More to the main point, there probably exists ton's of training 
manuals in electronic form, for which the taxpayers of this country 
paid HUGE sums of money.  If you live near a military installation or 
other federal site, you may wish to try and see what they may have.  
The only catch is that they may claim they have to collect duplication 
costs from you. (The law gives them the right, If they don't want to 
give it to you, they'll jack this way up!)  In my case, this whole 
process took only a couple of minutes for someone to copy the 
information from the server to the floppies that I provided.  If they 
hassle you, you should call your congressional representative and 
invoke the Freedom of Information Act, if you really want the things.  
In my opinion, all this stuff should be in a publicly accessible data 
repository.  Congress is working on such a thing, but the plan is to 
charge you even more to get it then you already paid.  Legally, all 
material written by federal agencies including manuals and software is 
in the Public Domain.  You can even sell it, if you can find somebody 
to buy it. 


Contents:

1begin.txt  -  The beginning unix course.  All references to the 
                "annex" refer to an ethernet terminal concentrator.

3intermed.txt -  The intermediate unix course.

3bourne.txt   -  The Bourne shell programming course.


I can be reached on the internet as

mmann@nyx.cs.du.edu or

Montgomery Mann on PC-Ohio