ANN: New UNIX programming book

Hi all,

Forgive my indulgence, but I am pleased to announce the
publication of my book, Solaris Systems Programming.
Despite the word "Solaris" in its title, my book is
suitable for programmers of any UNIX or UNIX-like
operating system.  My vision of this book was one that
could be regarded as an updated and expanded version of
Rich Stevens' excellent Advanced Programming in the UNIX
Environment, with a Solaris bias.  With all humility, I
think I've largely achieved this lofty goal, although
time will tell...

The book is a hardback with 1248 pages, is published by
Sun Microsystems Press (an imprint of Prentice Hall PTR),
and is available immediately.

More details, including a sample chapter, the complete
preface and table of contents, and a searchable index
can be found from my web site, www.rite-group.com/rich .
This URL can also be used to order a copy of the book.

We now return you to your regular programming (pun
intended!)...

--
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, author of "Solaris Systems Programming",
published in August 2004.

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

HI,

Rich Teer wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Forgive my indulgence, but I am pleased to announce the
> publication of my book, Solaris Systems Programming.
> Despite the word "Solaris" in its title, my book is
> suitable for programmers of any UNIX or UNIX-like
> operating system.  My vision of this book was one that
> could be regarded as an updated and expanded version of
> Rich Stevens' excellent Advanced Programming in the UNIX
> Environment, with a Solaris bias.  With all humility, I
> think I've largely achieved this lofty goal, although
> time will tell...
>
> The book is a hardback with 1248 pages, is published by
> Sun Microsystems Press (an imprint of Prentice Hall PTR),
> and is available immediately.
>
> More details, including a sample chapter, the complete
> preface and table of contents, and a searchable index
> can be found from my web site, www.rite-group.com/rich .
> This URL can also be used to order a copy of the book.
>
> We now return you to your regular programming (pun
> intended!)...
>
Nice, but PLS explain how and where you created the PDF files :)

cheers

Michael

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Michael Laajanen wrote:

> Nice, but PLS explain how and where you created the PDF files :)

I had to use Adobe Acrobat; bugs in the version of ps2pdf
prevented me from using it.  :-(  As to where, it was right
here, using SunPCi IIpro.

Assuming the bugs get ironed out, I'll use ps2pdf in future.

--
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, author of "Solaris Systems Programming",
published in August 2004.

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:29:36 +0000, Rich Teer wrote:

> I had to use Adobe Acrobat; bugs in the version of ps2pdf
> prevented me from using it.  :-(  As to where, it was right
> here, using SunPCi IIpro.

dvipdfm(1)

DESCRIPTION
The program dvipdfm generates a PDF file from  a  DVI  file.
DVI  files  are  the  output format produced by TeX.  Output
from groff can be converted to DVI format using grodvi.

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Dave Uhring wrote:

> dvipdfm(1)
>
> DESCRIPTION
>      The program dvipdfm generates a PDF file from  a  DVI  file.
>      DVI  files  are  the  output format produced by TeX.  Output
>      from groff can be converted to DVI format using grodvi.

Alas, I only have dvipdf (which also goes through PostScript
conversion phase.  Due to time constraints, I didn't have time,
nor the inclination, to mess about trying to find another way
of converting PostScript to PDF.

I think the latest version of Aladin GhostScript (8.somehting)
does the job, but the GPL version (7.something) doesn't.  I
tried compiling Aladin GhostScript here, but (surprise surprise)
it didn't work out of the box.  :-(

Apart from a bit of text misalignment, ps2pdf did a good job.
Just not acceptable for a professional looking book.  I suspect
the latest (non-GPL) version of GhostScript will fix that.

--
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, author of "Solaris Systems Programming",
published in August 2004.

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:58:50 +0000, Rich Teer wrote:

> I think the latest version of Aladin GhostScript (8.somehting)
> does the job, but the GPL version (7.something) doesn't.  I
> tried compiling Aladin GhostScript here, but (surprise surprise)
> it didn't work out of the box.  :-(

I recently built ghostscript-8.13 without any problems on S10_b63.  Just
be sure to have '-L/usr/openwin/lib -R/usr/openwin/lib" in your $LDFLAGS.
You do need GNUmake to build it.

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Dave Uhring wrote:

> I recently built ghostscript-8.13 without any problems on S10_b63.  Just
> be sure to have '-L/usr/openwin/lib -R/usr/openwin/lib" in your $LDFLAGS.
> You do need GNUmake to build it.

Ah, that explains it - thanks for the tip, and I'll give it another
go sometime.  Good job I only downloaded the trial version of
Acrobat!

--
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, author of "Solaris Systems Programming",
published in August 2004.

President,
Rite Online Inc.

Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638
URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich

HI,

Rich Teer wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Michael Laajanen wrote:
>
> 
>
>
> I had to use Adobe Acrobat; bugs in the version of ps2pdf
> prevented me from using it.  :-(  As to where, it was right
> here, using SunPCi IIpro.
>
> Assuming the bugs get ironed out, I'll use ps2pdf in future.
>
Have you tried Adobes distill(Part of Framemaker on Sparc(you know
Sparc) :)) ), it usually works much better that gs.

I will get the Book from Amazon, if it sell good get Framemaker on Sparc
while it still available :))

Cheers

/michael

HI,

Rich Teer wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Michael Laajanen wrote:
>
> 
>
>
> I had to use Adobe Acrobat; bugs in the version of ps2pdf
> prevented me from using it.  :-(  As to where, it was right
> here, using SunPCi IIpro.
>
> Assuming the bugs get ironed out, I'll use ps2pdf in future.
>
Have you tried Adobes distill(Part of Framemaker on Sparc(you know
Sparc) :)) ), it usually works much better that gs.

I will get the Book from Amazon, if it sell good get Framemaker on Sparc
while it still available :))

Cheers

/michael

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 23:58:50 +0000, Rich Teer wrote:

> I think the latest version of Aladin GhostScript (8.somehting) does the
> job, but the GPL version (7.something) doesn't.

The GPL version is now 8.01, see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ and is
available packaged for Solaris from http://www.blastwave.org


> I tried compiling Aladin
> GhostScript here, but (surprise surprise) it didn't work out of the box.

If you want a compiled AFPL Ghostscript 8.14, try this:
http://www.blastwave.org/~james/#afpl