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OS/2 Warp Administrator's Survival Guide by Bret Curran Recommended

ISBN: 0-672-30744-8       Publisher: Sams       Pages: 1027pp&CD       Price: £49-95

Windows NT 3.51 Unleashed by Robert Cowart Recommended

ISBN: 0-672-30902-5       Publisher: Sams       Pages: 1046pp&CD       Price: £46-95

Categories:   os/2     MS Windows

Reviewed by Francis Glassborow in C Vu 8-4 (May 1996)

Windows NT 3.51 has already proved to be a source of useful information for handling such things as crashed programs, networking problems and a multitude of other small items. If you are one of those who simply installs an operating system and gets on with work you will not find much use for a tome such as this one. On the other hand, if you have to cope with multiple co- resident operating systems, want to try to optimise aspects of your system, need to handle changes to system files, environment variables and the like this is a book that you should consider having readily available.

OS/2 Warp Administrator's Survival Guide does a similar job for OS/2 WARP . If you are a serious user chapters such as the one on fine- tuning and tweaking will soon justify your purchase of this book. However, remember that this book is aimed at system administrators, so, as for the previous book, it is not for those that just want to load an OS and forget it.

Curran
Software Quality by Eugene Curran & Joc Sanders [Recommended]  (Reviewed Sep 1994)