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                                                        The Florida SunFlash

                Upcomming Book Titles From SunSoft Press

SunFLASH Vol 48 #8                           December 1992
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This is an article by Karin Ellison, Publisher of SunSoft Press. It
describes the books that will be available from SunSoft Press in 1993.

Titles Covers in this article:
                         Solaris Porting Guide
      ToolTalk and Open Protocols: Inter-Application Communication
                      All About Administering NIS+
                Solaris International Developer's Guide
       Other SunSoft Press/Prentice Hall books under development:
       Solaris OpenWindows User's Guide (OpenWindows Version 3.1)
    Solaris OpenWindows DeskSet Reference (OpenWindows Version 3.1)
Solaris OpenWindows Desktop Integration Guide (DIG) (OpenWindows Version 3.1)
          The ToolTalk Service: An Inter-Operability Solution
          Solaris Application Developer's Guide (AppDevGuide)
                  Solaris System Administrator's Guide
                            Guide to Solaris
        Other SunSoft Press/Ziff-Davis books under development:
-johnj
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SunSoft Press is the publishing group within SunSoft that promotes
SunSoft and Sun products and technologies through the publication of
books for programmers and developers, system administrators and end
users.

SunSoft Press copublishes its programmer/developer books and manuals
with PTR Prentice Hall and its end user/general programmer books with
Ziff-Davis Press. All books feature the authorized SunSoft Press logo.
These books are available through SunExpress and through local
bookstores worldwide.

We look forward to providing you with a quality selection of
state-of-the-art books that reflect our latest products and engineering
trends.

Karin Ellison, Publisher, SunSoft Press

Note: All book prices and publication dates are subject to change
without notice.  January 1993.
[e-mail], [phone],
SunSoft Inc, 2550 Garcia Ave, Mail Stop MTV8-216,
Mountain View, CA 94043.


TO ORDER SunSoft Press/Prentice Hall books:
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Visit your local bookstore, or call SunExpress, or:

For single copy orders:         PTR Prentice Hall/Neodata
(or call SunExpress)            Phone: [phone], FAX: [phone]
For orders greater than 10 copies:    Marc Puma, PTR Prentice Hall
(or call SunExpress)            113 Sylvan Avenue, Route 9W
                    Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
                    Phone: [phone],
                    FAX: [phone]
For international orders:        Simon & Schuster International
(or call SunExpress)            Customer Service
                    200 Old Tappan Road
                    Old Tappan, NJ 07675
                    Attn: Joanne Edwing
                    Phone: [phone],
                    FAX: [phone]

TO ORDER SunSoft Press/Ziff-Davis Press books:
--------------------------------------------------
Visit your local bookstore, or call SunExpress, or:
For U.S. orders:            Cindy Johnson, Corporate Sales Manager
(or call SunExpress)            Ziff-Davis Press
                    5903 Christie Avenue
                    Emeryville, CA 94608
                    Phone: [phone],
                    FAX: [phone]
For international orders:        Kristi Paranick, International Sales
(or call SunExpress)            Ziff-Davis Press
                    5903 Christie Avenue
                    Emeryville, CA 94608
                    Phone: [phone],
                    FAX: [phone]


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        Books from SunSoft Press/Prentice Hall
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Solaris Porting Guide
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by SunSoft ISV Engineering:
    Michele Goodman, Manoj Goyal, and Robert A. Massoudi.
Paperback; includes a disk, $39.95, ISBN 013-030396-8
Pub date: March/April 1993

This guide provides a comprehensive technical overview of porting to
the Solaris environment, including the information necessary to migrate
from Solaris 1.x (SunOS 4.x) to Solaris 2.x (SunOS 5.0). SunOS is the
new SVR4-based operating system which is a component of Solaris.

Topics covered include:
    * Multiprocessing and multithreading (MP/MT)
    * Real-time functions in the Solaris environment
    * Writing to the device driver or device kernel interface (DDI/DKI)
    * Interprocess Communication (IPC)
    * Standards Compliance
    * Windows and graphics
    * Application interoperability (ToolTalk)
    * Architectural differences (SPARC and Intel)

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ToolTalk and Open Protocols: Inter-Application Communication
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by Astrid Julienne and Brian Holtz
Paperback, $36.00, ISBN 013-031055-7
Pub date: April 1993

This book discusses how to design, write, and implement good open
protocols with examples using ToolTalk as the messaging service. The
book's five parts include:

    Part 1 How Applications Talk with Each Other
    Part 2 Using ToolTalk Functionality to Design Your Protocols
    Part 3 Creating ToolTalk Procedural Message Protocols
    Part 4 Creating ToolTalk Object Message Protocols
    Part 5 Examples of Good ToolTalk Protocols

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All About Administering NIS+
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by Rick Ramsey
Paperback, $32.00, ISBN 013-068800-2
Pub date: January 1993

This book is written for network administrators who want to know more
about NIS+, which is part of the ONC suite of networking products
available in Solaris. This book discusses the capabilities of NIS+, its
requirements, how it works, and how to get the most out of it. Explicit
step-by-step instructions for performing all the tasks necessary to set
up and administer NIS+ are provided. Also included is a planning
chapter that provides advice and guidelines for planning the layout and
administration of your NIS+ namespace, as well as how to transition to
NIS+ from NIS. (MIS managers who want to learn the capabilities and
resources of NIS+ will also benefit from reading this book.) The book
is divided into three parts:

Part 1 - Understanding NIS+: Explains the purpose and benefits of
network information services. Compares NIS+ to NIS and DNS. Also
describes the Name Service Switch and how to use it with NIS+.

Part 2 - Setting Up the NIS+ Service: Provides explicit, step-by-step
instructions for setting up the components of an NIS+ namespace from
the root domain to individual clients. The setup process has been
divided into individual chapters, or "building blocks". You can "build"
your namespace by putting together the building blocks that you need. A
planning chapter provides guidelines for setting up an NIS+ namespace
and transitioning from NIS to NIS+.

Part 3 - Using the NIS+ Commands: Describes the NIS+ commands, dividing
them into administration categories, such as "commands used to
administer credentials" and "commands used to administer groups", and
places all commands of a category in their own chapter. Each command
description includes a summary of syntax as well as instructions for
using is to accomplish specific tasks.

Highlights include:
    * Compares NIS+ to DNS and NIS.
    * Describes, in detail, the structure of NIS+ objects and security.
    * Provides planning guidelines.
    * Provides guidelines for a transition from NIS to NIS+.
    * Provide modular, fully-tested, step-by-step instructions for setting
      up different components of a namespace.
    * Provides easy-to-reference descriptions of NIS+ administration
      commands.
    * Full of illustrations, examples, and tips.

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Solaris International Developer's Guide
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by Bill Tuthill
Paperback, $30.00, ISBN 013-031063-8
Pub date: March 1993

This book is intended for developers who need to create global
applications to run on the Solaris distributed computing environment,
for either SPARC or Intel platforms.

The book begins with a marketing overview, and continues with chapters
explaining how to develop software with the help of SunOS system
libraries and the OpenWindows desktop environment. International
standards are referenced when possible, and examples include both C
code fragments and complete C programs. Graphical user interface design
can be done with the X window system and its toolkits OLIT and XView,
or with the simpler DevGuide interface generator. Special guidelines
are given for major language markets around the world, including the
multibyte Asian languages as well as key European languages.

Additional chapters are devoted to international documentation
guidelines, software localization issues, international standards, and
a look into the future. Detailed appendices cover language and
territory names, sample programs, keyboard layouts for both SPARC and
Intel, library routines, and terminology translation and glossary
sections.

Special emphasis is placed throughout on:
    * Expanding software markets worldwide
    * Global UNIX development
    * International X windows
    * Solaris on SPARC and Intel platforms

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Other SunSoft Press/Prentice Hall books under development:
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Solaris Implementation (sys admin for F1000 companies)
    Pub date: summer 1993
Multiprocessing System Design Using SPARC, MBus, and Solaris
    Pub date: summer 1993
Solaris Book of Answers (Solaris A to Z; end user sys admin)
    Pub date: May 1993


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        Manuals from SunSoft Press/Prentice Hall
        ----------------------------------------

These manuals have been written in a non-platform specific manner; most
are appropriate to both SPARC and Intel platforms with a few minor
exceptions (for example, Audio Tool requires hardware-specific
coverage). Several manuals include material not available in the basic
Solaris documentation. Their smaller retail page trim-size is 7-3/8"
high x 9-1/8" wide.


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Solaris OpenWindows User's Guide (OpenWindows Version 3.1)
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Paperback; price TBA; ISBN 013-035700-6
Pub date: January 1993

This manual describes the OpenWindows Version 3.1 implementation of the
OPEN LOOK graphical user interface. It provides the reader with some
basic information needed to use OpenWindows, run the DeskSet
applications, and customize the OpenWindows environment.

Topics covered include:
* Basic post-installation procedures that you need to perform to start up the
  OW environment.
* Intro to OW environment: discusses the use of mouse, menus, windows, and
  other fundamentals.
* The 15 DeskSet tools, including Mail Tool, Calendar Manager, File Manager,
  Command Tool, Text Editor, Clock, Calculator, Print Tool, Audio Tool,
  Tape Tool, Binder, Snapshot, Icon Editor, Performance Meter, Shell Tool.
* OW Troubleshooting information.
* How to read manual pages.
* Some keyboard modification information.
* Internetworking information on applications and DECnet.
* AnswerBook documentation.
* Glossary of OW terminology.

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Solaris OpenWindows DeskSet Reference (OpenWindows Version 3.1)
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Paperback; price TBA; ISBN 013-035718-9
Pub date: January 1993

This manual provides a complete reference to the DeskSet applications
for OpenWindows Version 3.1. The DeskSet applications are a set of
productivity tools that include a Text Editor, File Manager, Calendar
Manager, Mail Tool, and many other useful applications.

Topics covered include:
* A compete reference on the 15 DeskSet tools, including Mail
  Tool, Calendar Manager, File Manager, Command Tool, Text
  Editor, Clock, Calculator, Print Tool, Audio Tool, Tape Tool,
  Binder, Snapshot, Icon Editor, Performance Meter, Shell Tool.
* A Troubleshooting section on the DeskSet applications.

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Solaris OpenWindows Desktop Integration Guide (DIG) (OpenWindows Version 3.1)
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Paperback; includes a disk; price TBA; ISBN 013-035726-X
Pub date: January 1993


This manual describes how to create interoperable applications running
in the Solaris environment. Interoperable applications are applications
that can share data and processes with other applications.

 Topics covered include:
* Drag and drop. The ability to move data between applications
  using the cut/copy/paste keys, or simple mouse gestures.
* Classing Engine. Determining the operating characteristics of other
  files, and distributing the operating characteristics of your own
  application files to other requesting applications.
* ToolTalk. Exchanging command and process messages between applications.
* Integrating with DeskSet. Issues about integrating your application
  with the DeskSet applications.

Included in this manual is source code (on a disk) for a sample
application incorporating these desktop integration technologies.

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The ToolTalk Service: An Inter-Operability Solution
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Paperback; price TBA; ISBN 013-0088717-X
Pub date: January 1993

Combines the two ToolTalk manuals into one retail market volume.

This book describes the ToolTalk service, an interapplication message
service by SunSoft, and how to modify your applications to send and
receive ToolTalk messages. This book gives a generic presentation (that
is, it is non-platform specific and nonoperating system specific,
although it is tied to UNIX). It discusses the use of ToolTalk without
OpenWindows and gives a robust example of two existing applications
that have been modified to communicate using the ToolTalk technology.
The book contains the following parts:

Part 1 Introducing the ToolTalk Service
Part 2 How to Set-Up, Install, and Maintain the ToolTalk Service
Part 3 Communicating with Other Applications
Part 4 The ToolTalk Function and Command Reference
Part 5 Error Messages

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Solaris Application Developer's Guide (AppDevGuide)
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Paperback; price TBA; ISBN 013-205097-8
Pub date: January 1993

This manual provides a general overview of the application development
environment and interfaces in the Solaris 2.x system software. It is
useful for application developers who have used Solaris 1.x and are
migrating to Solaris 2.x.

 Topics covered include:
* Solaris 2.x features.
* The Solaris 2.x application development environment: languages,
  tools, debuggers, compatibility packages.
* System Services: C language functions and tools.
* The Solaris 2.x developer interfaces: standards conformance, windows,
  APIs, graphics, etc.
* Networking.
* Internationalizing applications: enabling applications to be run in
  any locale.
* The ToolTalk Service: an interapplication communication package.

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        Books from SunSoft Press/Ziff-Davis Press
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Solaris System Administrator's Guide
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by Janice Winsor
Paperback; $29.95; 288 pages; ISBN 1-56276-080-7
Published

This practical guide for system administrators at all levels of
experience provides the information for efficiently managing the
Solaris 2.x environment. Loaded with step-by-step examples and based on
a trusty in-house reference manual that became an underground classic
at Sun Microsystems, Inc., this task-oriented book gets you the
information you need every time. First-time administrators,
administrators new to the Solaris system software, and experienced
administrators looking for an easy-access reference will all find a
valuable resource in this clear, no-nonsense handbook. Employing a
quick-reference approach, the author presents the command sequence for
each system administration task followed by supporting sample code.
Also included is a brief description of every task so that you can
choose the right command for the job.

 Topics covered include:
    * File systems
    * Networking
    * Printing
    * Shells
    * Troubleshooting
    * Detailed appendix on differences between SunOS 4.x and 5.0. (also
      available in a quick-reference card format)
    * Special appendix on new administration tools in Solaris 2.1

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Guide to Solaris
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by John Pew
Paperback; $34.95; ISBN 1-56276-087-4
Pub date: June 1993

This book discusses the entire Solaris distributed computing
environment. Part 1 includes a brief structural overview of the Solaris
solution, including DeskSet application, OPEN LOOK graphical user
interface, OpenWindows windowing environment, SunOS system, ONC
networking products. Part 2 provides more detail on each of the
fifteen, DeskSet applications, including File Manager, Mail Tool,
Calendar Manager, Shell Tool, Command Tool, Console, and more. Part 3
continues with SunOS fundamentals and working from the command line.
Topics covered include SunOS system fundamentals, the vi editor, mail
from the command line, the network, and formatting and printing
documents. Part 4 introduces system administration topics, including
installing SunOS, OpenWindows, and other software, booting and halting
the system, configuring the printing system, and managing disks and
disk space. Throughout the book, the author challenges the reader with
special sections on how to customize the environment to the reader's
tastes.


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Other SunSoft Press/Ziff-Davis books under development:
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Solaris System Administrator's - Advanced Tasks        Pub date: August 1993
Guide to INTERACTIVE UNIX                Pub date: April 1993
Solaris DeskSet: The Art of Drag and Drop        Pub date: summer 1993
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