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Library Notes

Each semester, the ECN places books and manuals in the Sigesmund Library in the Potter Engineering Center. The following books were added to the library's collection since September 1997.

Inside The Windows 95 File System
by Stan Mitchell
ISBN: 156592200x
The diskette contained in this package contains MULTIMON, an exciting new tool which is a general purpose monitor for examining Windows internals. This book details the Windows 95 File System, depicting the role it plays in providing new opportunities and challenges for developers.

Windows NT In A Nutshell
by Eric Pearce
ISBN: 1565922514
Every NT user is an NT system administrator, whether they realize it or not. This book organizes NT's complex GUI interface, dialog boxes and a multitude of DOS-shell commands into an easy-to-use quick reference. It includes real-life examples of command usage and strategies for problem solving, with an emphasis on networking.

Windows Annoyances
by David A. Karp
ISBN: 1565922662
Irritating features and what to do about them--this is the focus of this comprehensive resource. Intermediate to advanced users of Windows 95 and NT version 4.0 will learn step-by-step how to customize the Win95/NT operating system through an extensive collection of tips, tricks, and workarounds. The book covers Registry, Plug and Play, networking, security, multiple-user settings, and third-party software.

Learning The Bash Shell
by Cameron Hewham, Bill Rosenblatt, Cameron Newham
ISBN: 156592147X
Bash, the Free Software Foundation's "Bourne Again Shell, " is the default shell for Linux, the popular free UNIX-like operating system. It's also a replacement for the standard UNIX Bourne shell, which serves both as a user interface and as a programming language. The book covers all of bash's features, both for interactive use and programming.

Practical C Programming
by Steve Oualline
ISBN: 1565923065
Practical C Programming teaches readers how to create clear and easy to read programs so that the programmer who must maintain the code does not have to struggle with it. It emphasizes the process of program development and presents many tools found in the UNIX environment which improve a programmer's efficiency.

Access Database Design & Programming
by Steven Roman
ISBN: 1565922972
This book provides experienced Access users who are novice programmers with frequently overlooked concepts and techniques necessary to create effective database applications. It focuses on designing effective tables in a multi-table application; using the Access interface or Access SQL to construct queries; and programming using the Data Access Object (DAO) and Microsoft Access object models.

Learning Perl On Win32 Systems
by Randal L. Schwartz, Erik Olson, Tom Christiansen
ISBN: 1565923243
In this carefully paced course, leading Perl trainers and a Windows NT practitioner teach you to program in the language that promises to emerge as the scripting language of choice on NT. Based on the ''llama'' book, this book features tips for PC users and new NT-specific examples, along with a forward by Larry Wall, the creator of Perl.

Advanced Perl Programming
by Sriram Srinivasan
ISBN: 1565922204
This book covers complex techniques for managing production-ready Perl programs and explains methods for manipulating data and objects that may have looked like magic before. It gives you necessary background for dealing with networks, databases, and GUIs and includes a discussion of internals to help you program more efficiently and embed Perl within C when necessary

NTCL/TK Tools
by Mark Harrison
ISBN: 1565922182
One of the greatest strengths of Tcl/Tk is the range of extensions written for it. In this book the creators of the most popular and robust extensions write about them in an eminently readable and usable form. The binaries on the accompanying CD-ROM run on many popular UNIX platforms. Sources are included so readers can build the extensions on other platforms that support them.

NOracle Design
by Dave Ensor, Ian Stevenson
ISBN: 1565922689
This book focuses exclusively on Oracle database design. It covers the most up-to-date Oracle issues and technologies, including massively parallel processors, very large databases, data warehouses, client-server, and distributed database. The design advice is detailed and thorough. The book delves deeply into design issues and gives advice that will have a major impact on your database and system performance.

Oracle8 Design Tips
by Dave Ensor, Ian Stevenson
ISBN: 565923618
The newest version of the Oracle DBMS, Oracle8, offers some dramatically different features from previous versions, including better scalability, reliability, and security; an object-relational model; additional datatypes; and much more. To get peak performance out of an Oracle8 system, databases and code need to be designed with these new features in mind. This small book tells Oracle designers and developers just what they need to know to use the Oracle8 features to best advantage.

Java Examples In A Nutshell
by David Flanagan
ISBN: 1565923715
From the author of Java in a Nutshell comes Java Examples in a Nutshell--chock-full of practical, real-world Java programming examples that readers can learn or modify for their own use.

Excel 97 Annoyances
by Woody Leonhard, Lee Hudspeth, J. T. Lee
ISBN: 156592309x
Aimed at users who prefer to use Excel in the most effective way possible, this title shows how to shape Excel 97 in a way that will not only make it most effective but will allow readers to experience a sense of enjoyment as they analyze data with ease.

Web Security: A Matter Of Trust
ISBN: 1565923294
This issue of the ''World Wide Web Journal'' frames Web security as a matter of trust rather than cryptography. It covers W3C's Digital Signature Initiative (DSI), which breaks new ground in this area by binding machine-readable labels to public key signatures. Other topics include medical record privacy issues, signature legality, trust in Internet information system, and the PGP Web of trust.

Maximum Security
by Anonymous
ISBN: 1575212684
Now more than ever, it is imperative that users be able to protect their system from hackers trashing their Web sites or stealing information. Written by a reformed hacker, this comprehensive resource identifies security holes in common computer and network systems, allowing system administrators to discover faults inherent within their network and work toward a solution to those problems.

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