The Sun Observer Articles

These are a few of the over 200 technical magazine articles published by Pete Radatti. Unfortunately, Pete did not keep digital copies of most of the articles. We will endeavor to provide better descriptions of the articles in addition to providing more articles in the future. We hope that you find these articles enjoyable and helpful.

The Sun Observer, Volume 8 No.5 May 1995
Article 1 in series. Getting Started with the Unix system. Exploring the Unix file system and file name conventions. Very basic information for the novice user.

The Sun Observer, Volume 8 No.6 June 1995
Article 2 in series. Manipulating the contents of files. The grep, strings and more commands. Piping.

The Sun Observer, Volume 8 No.7 July 1995
Article 3 in series. The find command helps locate lost files, sort files

The Sun Observer, Volume 8 No.8 August 1995
Article 4 in series. Exploring the csh script language

The Sun Observer, Volume 8 No.9 September 1995
Article 5 in series. Writing Unix scripts with if-then-else statements

October 1995
Article 7 in series. Performing regular backups

The Sun Observer, Volume 10 No.1 January 1996
Article 8 in series. Testing and guarding your systems

The Sun Observer, Volume 10 No.3 March 1996
Article 9 in series. Users can call COPS to look for security holes in systems

March 25, 1996
Article 10 in series. The computer security game

April 19, 1996
Article 11 in series. The split network architecture

May 20, 1996
Article 12 in series. The split network architecture part deux

June 1, 1996
Article 13 in series. Anti-Virus for Publishers. Includes the CyberSoft Half Dozen Rules of Antivirus Common Sense.

July 1, 1996
Article 14 in series. Using the A&T Tiger Script