This edition offers advice on networking and configuring UNIX systems and the inter-networking of UNIX with DECnet, Novell, Macintosh, and X. It highlights the changes incurred by the move from BSD UNIX to SVR4 UNIX, and covers emerging standards such as OSF's DCE and Sun's ONC NIS+ and NFS.

"Focuses broadly on those aspects of the UNIX environment that are needed to provide a more global understanding, especially in its dealing with distributed and networked systems, in a very practical and hands-on manner". -- IEEE Network Magazine