first print	In English
ISBN: 1-56884-203-1 (Fennica) (HelMet) (Kirjastot.fi) (Library of Congress)	Publisher: IDG Books Worldwide May, 1984
This book has a home page at http://research.microsoft.com/~daniel/unix-haters.html
This book is available electronically at http://www.devili.iki.fi/pub/misc/books/uhh.pdf

Table of Contents

Foreword	xv
Preface	xix
Things Are Going to Get a Lot Worse Before Things Get Worse
Who We Are	xxi
The UNIX-HATERS History	xxiii
Contributions and Acknowledgment	xxix
Typographical Conventions	xxxii
The UNIX-HATERS Disclaimer	xxxiii
Anti-Foreword	xxxv
Part 1: User Friendly?	1
1 UNIX	3
The World s First Computer Virus
History of the Plague	4
Sex, Drugs, and Unix	9
Standardizing Unconformity	10
Unix Myths	14
2 Welcome, New User!	17
Like Russian Roulette with Six Bullets Loaded
Cryptic Command Names	18
Accidents Will Happen	19
Consistently Inconsistent	26
Online Documentation	31
Error Messages and Error Checking, NOT!	31
The Unix Attitude	37
3 Documentation?	43
What Documentation?
On-line Documentation	44
This Is Internal Documentation?	51
For Programmers, Not Users	54
Unix Without Words: A Course Proposal	56
4 Mail	61
Don't Talk to Me, I m Not a Typewriter!
Sendmail: The Vietnam of Berkeley Unix	62
Subject: Returned Mail: User Unknown	67
From:	74
Apple Computer s Mail Disaster of 1991	85
5 Snoozenet	93
I Post, Therefore I Am
Netnews and Usenet: Anarchy Through Growth	93
Newsgroups	96
Alt.massive.flamage	100
This Information Highway Needs Information	100
rn, trn: You Get What You Pay for	101
When in Doubt, Post	105
Seven Stages of Snoozenet	106
6 Terminal Insanity	111
Curses! Foiled Again!
Original Sin	111
The Magic of Curses	114
7 The X-Windows Disaster	123
How to Make a 50-MIPS Workstation Run Like a 4.77MHz IBM PC
X: The First Fully Modular Software Disaster	124
X Myths	127
X Graphics: Square Peg in a Round Hole	141
X: On the Road to Nowhere	142
Part 2: Programmer s System?	145
8 csh, pipes, and find	147
Power Tools for Power Fools
The Shell Game	148
Shell Programming	155
Pipes	161
Find	166
9 Programming	173
Hold Still, This Won't Hurt a Bit
The Wonderful Unix Programming Environment	175
Programming in Plato s Cave	176
"It Can't Be a Bug, My Makefile Depends on It!"	186
If You Can't Fix It, Restart It!	198
10 C++	203
The COBOL of the 90s
The Assembly Language of Object-Oriented Programming	204
Syntax Syrup of Ipecac	208
Abstract What?	211
C++ Is to C as Lung Cancer Is to Lung	214
The Evolution of a Programmer	215
Part 3: Sysadmin's Nightmare	219
11 System Administration	221
Unix's Hidden Cost
Keeping Unix Running and Tuned	223
Disk Partitions and Backups	227
Configuration Files	235
Maintaining Mail Services	239
Where Did I Go Wrong?	241
12 Security	243
Oh, I m Sorry, Sir, Go Ahead, I Didn t Realize You Were Root
The Oxymoronic World of Unix Security	243
Holes in the Armor	244
The Worms Crawl In	257
13 The File System	261
Sure It Corrupts Your Files, But Look How Fast It Is!
What's a File System?	262
UFS: The Root of All Evil	265
14 NFS	283
Nightmare File System
Not Fully Serviceable	284
No File Security	287
Not File System Specific? (Not Quite)	292
Part 4: Et Cetera	303
A Epilogue	305
Enlightenment Through Unix
B Creators Admit C, Unix Were Hoax	307
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
C The Rise of Worse Is Better	311
D Bibliography	317
Just When You Thought You Were Out of the Woods...
Index	319