Does anyone out there know of ANY specific books pertaining to SGI's flavor of Unix - IRIX?
I have been in contact with SGI directly and they have not supplied me with any usable reference material or manuals.
I realize man pages are a good source for info, but I need to go a little deeper than what they provide. Any help would be greatly neded and appreciated!
~Mike
I have never seen a good book specific to SGI's UNIX implementation. As I recall, SGI's UNIX follows the System V migration path, so a good book on System V Unix would cover most of it, if that is the case.
I've used SGI UNIX servers and found them to be just like all other flavors of UNIX. I don't recall any remarkable differences and it seemed 'just another morph of UNIX' to me.
I also searched Amazon.com and come up with a blank.
Thanks.. for the most part SGI's Unix does follow System V. Its just those few "extra and different commands" that are enough to drive me up the wall ( And they are not in the man pages! ).
I am used to SCO-, HP, and Linux. Irix is a nice twist to remind me that no matter how much I think I know about *nix, I don't know enough.
Thanks!
~M
I dont know of any books either, but you might find this area helpful:
http://www-viz.tamu.edu/~sgi-faq/
Extensive FAQ's on various Irix topics (admin, security, apps, hardware, etc.)
As an IRIX admin of sorts
I can tell you that IMHO the IRIX manuals are pretty shallow often going into less detail than the man pages also the gui configuration tools are an order of magnitude less sophisticated than what can be achieved by manually configuring it
Hope that helps!
Chris
WWW Reference http://www-viz.tamu.edu/~sgi-faq/faq/html/misc/
Subject: -11- What are some related WWW pages?
Date: Fri May 26 14:56:48 CDT 2000
SGI and subsidiaries:
Silicon Surf (SGI's WWW servers)
http://www.sgi.com/
http://www.sgi.com/Misc/world-sites.html lists Silicon Surf's
international mirrors and support sites
http://www.sgi.de/
http://techpubs.sgi.com/
Alias/Wavefront
http://www.aliaswavefront.com/
InterActive Digital Solutions
http://www.ids.sgi.com/
MIPS Technologies, Inc. Home Page
http://www.mips.com/
Reality (SGI's employee home page server)
http://reality.sgi.com/
Silicon Studio Inc.
http://www.studio.sgi.com/
Cray Research
http://www.cray.com/
Companies and organizations:
Center for Landscape Research (including image editing and
processing software for SGIs)
http://www.clr.toronto.edu:1080/
Center for Visual Creation (an SGI International Training Center)
http://www.msstate.edu/Dept/CAS/cvcinfo.html
Easy Software Products ("2D & 3D software" for SGIs)
http://www.easysw.com/
ELECTROGIG
http://www.gig.nl/
Engineering Animation, Inc.
http://www.eai.com/
Globalprint (a graphics arts information clearinghouse)
http://www.globalprint.nl/
GLOBEtrotter (developers of FLEXlm)
http://www.globetrotter.com/
Impediment (third-party memory and peripherals vendor)
http://www.impediment.com/
Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ViewKit)
http://www.ics.com/
Interactive Effects Inc.
http://www.webcom.com/~ie/
IRIS Explorer Center
http://www.nag.co.uk/Welcome_IEC.html
Kaleidoscope Animations Inc.
http://www.kascope.com/
NATPIX software demos
http://www.rahul.net/natpix/
Paradigm Simulations Inc.
http://www.paradigmsim.com/
Template Graphics Software, Inc.
http://www.sd.tgs.com/~template
Vision Images
http://www.visionimages.com/
NetManage (makers of Z-Mail/MediaMail)
http://www.netmanage.com/
Miscellany:
Anonymous FTP site list
http://reality.sgi.com/employees/billh_hampton/anonftp/
See also below under "network-accessible documents"
Audio Applications for SGIs
http://reality.sgi.com/employees/cook/audio.apps/
Blip (a script for dynamic SLIP addressing)
http://www.ifokr.org/bri/blip/
Buying Old SGI Systems FAQ
http://cgi.amazing.com/internet/old-sgi-faq.html
CAP for SGIs
http://www.proximity.com.au/~tom/cap.html
Configuring and Debugging SLIP and PPP
http://reality.sgi.com/employees/scotth/dialup_support.html
Enhance image enhancement software
http://enhance.sgi.com/cgi-bin/enhance.cgi
FaceIt video face recognition system
http://venezia.rockefeller.edu/faceit/
Grafica Obscura (Paul Haeberli's graphics notebook)
http://www.sgi.com/grafica/
HylaFAX (formerly FlexFAX) Home Page
http://www.vix.com/hylafax/
i3D three-dimensional scene viewer
http://www.crs4.it/~3diadm/
IBD's SGI Collection (including IRIX 5.2, 5.3 and 6.x patch lists)
http://www.ibd.nrc.ca/~sgi/
See also below under "network-accessible documents"
Indy Technical Hardware Page (Greg Douglas)
http://www.reputable.com/indytech.html
IRIX share trees
http://www-viz.tamu.edu/~sgi-faq/archive/share_trees/
Ivy (a Scheme binding for Open Inventor)
http://www-white.media.mit.edu/~kbrussel/Ivy/
JAVA resources for SGI users
http://reality.sgi.com/grafica/javahack.html
Scientific Visualization Software Packages
http://www.msi.umn.edu/user_support/scivis/scivis-list.html
SGI Advice and Technical Data (Ian Mapleson's detailed info)
http://www.futuretech.vuurwerk.nl/sgi.html
SGI Alternatif (une meta-page SGI en Francais)
http://www.cenatls.cena.dgac.fr/~boubaker/Francais/SGI.html
SGI Alternative (an SGI meta-page in English)
http://www.cenatls.cena.dgac.fr/~boubaker/English/SGI.html
SGI DOOM FAQ
http://www.cmpharm.ucsf.edu/~troyer/sgidoomfaq.html
SGI Meta-Page (collected SGI Internet resources)
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/people/Faculty/Randy.Carpenter/sgimeta.html
SGI Periodic Table (system performance comparison table)
http://www.sgi.com/Technology/dev-resources2.html#periodic
SGI Web Install Site (precompiled, instable software)
http://mat075207.student.utwente.nl/pub/SGI/
http://www.pk.edu.pl/pub/sgi/
SGI-Usergroup Deutschland (auf Deutsch)
http://sgiug.uni-paderborn.de/
Silicon Graphics Info at BNL
http://www.ccd.bnl.gov/sgi/
Silicon Graphics Information (collected SGI Internet resources)
http://www.star.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/sgi-info.html
Silicon Graphics User Groups
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/services/sgiusers.html
See also below under "network-accessible documents".
Strange Software (Tom Benoist's free software)
http://www.webcom.com/ie/benoist/
Swirly screen saver
http://os.sri.com/~nat/swirly.html
Third-party supplier of hardware for SGIs
http://www.vigyan.com/~blbates/hardware/
This Old SGI (A. J. Corda's 4D series information)
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2258/4dfaq.html
TURN (Tiny UI Read News) newsreader
http://reality.sgi.com/turn/
uman IRIX manpage database
http://reality.sgi.com/cgi-bin/uman
US Army Research Laboratory (ARL, formerly BRL) FTP site
http://ftp.arl.mil/
Vince Liggio's SGI software collection
http://www.madness.net/sgi.html
WAIS archives of the comp.sys.sgi.* newsgroups
http://hornet.mmg.uci.edu/~hjm/projects/sgi.wais.html
XFS filesystem demonstration
http://everest.ee.umn.edu/~cattelan/XFS/
removed html tags for readability --oombera
Just want to Thank everybody for all the info! Now the real work starts.
~M