UNIX Video Training
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Designed for computer users who have previous computer experience, but are new to the UNIX operating system. These inexpensive 'Hands-on Training on Video' series teaches you the skills necessary to master UNIX. Just drop the video into your VCR, open the manual and you're on your way. When you need revision simply rewind. When one person is finished with the course pass it on to the next student. Soon your whole department will be up to speed.

The complete series consists of 4 video learning systems.

    A Users Introduction to UNIX
This two-hour video course provides a comprehensive introduction to the important features of the UNIC system. It is designed foe people familiar with computers who need to learn how to use the UNIX system effectively. The course includes a 150 page manual that contains course notes, exercises, solutions, addenda, bibliography, and an index.

Topics covered:

• Overview of the UNIX system
• Using the on-line manual
• Files, directories and paths
• Copying, removing & renaming files
• Using wildcards
• Understanding file permissions
• Using the vi editor
• Spell checking & printing files
• Electronic mail
• A file tree search
• A Tape Archiver tar
• Sending output to files
• Executing background commands

Course Material:

Two hour video cassette, the course comes with a 150 page manual, a student workbook and a hands-on vi tutorial

     Creating Applications with UNIX Tools
The UNIX system contains a powerful set of text processing tools that can be used to create data base applications. This course covers the most important commands: grep, sed. awk. and sort. A separate section is dedicated to each tool that describes its features in detail and shows examples of use. This course is designed for experienced users.

Topics Covered

• How UNIX Executes Commands
• Redirection Metacharacters
• Process Control Metacharacters
• Executing Multiple Commands
• UNIX Filters
• Matching Patterns With Regular Expressions
• The GREP, SED, AWK Commands
• Connecting Filters with Pipelines
• Constructing Text Data Base Files
• Creating Applications with Pipelines

Course material includes a 100 minute videotape presentation and course manual. includes a 100 minute videotape presentation and course manual.

    UNIX Shell Programming
The standard UNIX command processor, the Bourne Shell, provides a simple yet powerful programming language.

With it, users can create their own applications quickly and easily. A viewer learns how to do the programming by watching a simple one-line command becoming a complete application, one step at a time. This course is designed for the experienced UNIX user

Topics Covered

• Creating Command Files
• Positional Parameters
• Using Arguments in command Files
• The CASE Statement
• Logical Operators
• A Process 'exit' Status
• The TEST Command
• The for Loop
• Writing Interactive Commands
• The If statement
• The while loop
• Creating a user Interface
• Using the Process Environment
• Creating Shell Programming Applications

Course Material includes a 2 hour video presentation & manual. includes a 2 hour video presentation & manual.

     UNIX System Administration
This five hour video course, presented by Ray Swartz, a well known trainer and author on UNIX topics, provides a thorough introduction to Unix system administration and maintenance.

Designed for people with some UNIX experience, but no administration knowledge, the course is divided into 10 sections, each focusing on a separate system administration function. Each section describes the task being covered, how it works, where it fits into the Unix system , and demonstrates the commands and files required to administer it. In areas where commands are version specific, System V, Release 4 commands are shown and SCO. In addition Berkeley, and earlier System V approaches are discussed.

Topics Covered

• Duties of a System Administrator
• Review of Important UNIX Topics
• Startup and Shutdown of a UNIX System
• Managing User Accounts
• Maintaining File Systems
• Backing up and Restoring Files
• Terminals and Modems
• The UNIX Print Service
• Scheduling Jobs with cron
• Managing a UNIX Network
• UUCP
• Security
• System Performance

Course Material: In addition to the 5 hour video presentation the course includes over 200 pages of comprehensive course notes, a published textbook, and suggested exercises and solutions: In addition to the 5 hour video presentation the course includes over 200 pages of comprehensive course notes, a published textbook, and suggested exercises and solutions

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UNIX Variants

The "User's Introduction to UNIX" course is almost entirely generic to all UNIX variants. In places where differences between versions exist, an attempt is made to cover the most common approaches. The material presented in "Creating Applications with UNIX Tools" and "UNIX Shell Programming" is generic to all versions of UNIX. The "Programmer's Introduction to C" is generic for all compilers on all operating systems.

The "Introduction to UNIX System Administration" course covers topics in two parts. First, general information about each topic is presented. Second, specific commands are demonstrated. In several sections, commands available on all UNIX versions are shown. Where UNIX versions differ, the System V approach is covered and the BSD methods are reviewed briefly. Where variations occur within System V, the System V, Release 4 approach and commands are covered. This course is recommended for Sun Microsystem's Solaris, Interactive UNIX, Novell's UNIXWare, SCO UNIX, HP-UX, and any other UNIX versions based on System V. Note that the course comes with a textbook that specifically covers administering BSD-based, System V-based, and AIX UNIX systems.

The MMS UNIX Shell Programming covers only the Bourne shell. Why doesn't it cover the C shell?

Bourne shell command files can be executed by the C shell without modification. However, C shell command files cannot be executed by the Bourne shell. Thus, Bourne shell command files can be executed by any user regardless of the shell being used. As a result we cover the more portable Bourne shell command files.

What about Linux?

Linux is a freely available version of UNIX. This means that nobody "owns" Linux. However, Linux is just like the other UNIX versions, in that, Linux offers virtually all the same commands and works in a similar manner.

If you want to learn Linux we recommend our new Linux + Powerlearning System

If you want to learn about doing Bourne Shell Programming on Linux, the video courses Creating Applications with UNIX Tools and UNIX Shell Programming cover what you need to know.

System Adminstration of a Linux system is like system administration on every other UNIX system. Namely, each system has its own quirks but, as a rule, they all work the same way. While the video course An Introduction to UNIX System Administration was not written specifically to handle Linux, much of what it covers is directly applicable to Linux System Administrators. In addition the textbook supplied with the course notes the areas where Linux is different from other UNIX systems.

How does video training compare with live training?

Not surprisingly, both have their advantages and drawbacks. Live training can more easily be tailored to your specific needs and a live instructor should be able to directly answer your questions. However, live training is expensive and cannot be switched off for viewing at a more convenient time. Video training is inexpensive, can be viewed repeatedly and watched at a time suitable to the viewer's schedule.

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