Marty Poniatowski has done a great job integrating this type of straight-to-get-that tutorial material with a more holistic text about Unix's design. A typical chapter begins with a command you can run at a command prompt. This text then explains that the command output, what does it mean, and how it fits into the larger scheme of Unix. The chapter then expands individual points with a deviation further explanation to the other commands, with a table that describes the syntax and switches the appropriate alternative (This book contains a few diagrams to help too, but the screen shots of the graphical interface of poor quality.) Each chapter ends with HP-UX man page for commands that are discussed there (the contents of the manual page, however, is not indexed). Chapters dealing with the file system, several shells (bash, Korn, and c), vi text editor, network setup and management, and graphical user interface. Several excellent chapters introduce readers to the integration of Windows NT (with Samba, among other tools) and Unix software development.