Starting with HP-UX programming

[vikrantl]

Hello friends,
I'm a few years expr. Windows programmer.
I have done some programming for user level, as well as for drivers.
What all should I know if I want to shift to
programming on HP-UX ?
Or more specifically, I have written some CLI programmes for HP-UX. If I want to start on
HP-UX internals how should I be proceeding?

I will appreciate if anyone can guide me!
Thanks,
-Vikrant

[John Bolene]

Not sure what you want to do.

C and Perl are used for most user programming in UNIX.

If you want to get into operating systems work, you must work for HP. The code is not 'OPEN' and is only known to them.

There are several internals classes that HP offers to let you know how HPUX works so that you are better able to optimize user programs.

[Erik Tong]

As previously noted, HPUX is not open, but HPUX is a version of UNIX. So to get started you can learn about the UNIX internals from all kinds of sources. Two books I've liked are "Advanced UNIX Programming" by Marc J. Rochkind and "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" by W. Richard Stevens.

These texts will prepare you to program virtually any UNIX (or UNIX like) system.