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The Unix operating system is generally considered reasonably easy to learn and quite easy to use. But even the easiest operating system takes a little getting used to, especially at the very start when nothing looks even remotely familiar and every response from the system appears vaguely ominous—if indeed the system responds at all! Most computer users dislike the first hour or so spent with a new operating system, when the initial difficulties of a new command language, new name conventions, and new protocol rules all appear together. This chapter is intended to provide a launching pad for the novice user and to help overcome the problems of that first hour. It is brief enough to be read at the terminal, trying out the various commands on the spot. Or it can be read at another time and place, in preparation for that first hour.
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© 1988 1984 by Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
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Silvester, P.P. (1988). Getting Started. In: The UNIX™ System Guidebook. Springer Books on Professional Computing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3724-2_2
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