M

Mac OS X, 22–23

accessing a UNIX system from, 40

system administration menus, 360, 363

Machine

connecting to, 37–40

finding on the network, 504–505

Machine-independent sharable files, 366

Machine-private files, 366

Machine-specific sharable files, 366

Madriva Linux, 39

Mail clients

explained, 227

types of, 228

mail command, 102, 575

Mail domains (sendmail), 508

Mail programs, 49.

See also E-mail

command-line, 228–229

graphical, 229, 238–242

sendmail, 350, 483, 490, 506–508

screen-oriented, 229–238

Mailing list managers, 285

Mailing lists, 285–286

mailto URL, 298

mailx utility

deleting messages, 50

getting started, 49–51

notification of new mail, 49

quitting, 51

reading mail, 49–50

replying to messages, 51

saving messages, 50

sending messages, 51

Maintenance tasks, 386–395

Majordomo program, 285

make command, 465, 476–477, 709–714

make install command, 465–466, 476–477

makefiles, 709–714

automatic variables, 712

commands, 711

comments, 710

complex C++, 713–714

dependencies, 711

with multiple dependencies, 711–713

non-programming, 714

syntax, 710–711

variables, 710

man command, 48, 723–725, 833–843

man grep command, 834–835

man -k command, 835–836

man man command, 833

man passwd command, 837

man -T command, 835

Mandriva, 19

Manual (man) pages, 723–725, 833–843

detailed structure of, 838–841

example, 725

online, 843

saving, 569

section categories, 836–837

Master DNS servers, 502–503

Mathematical calculations, 578–583, 788

Mathematical equations, TeX for, 764

Mathematical functions

in awk, 629

in Perl, 645–646

in Python, 677–679

Mathematical operations, 595–597, 677–679

Menu, printing, 606–607

MEPIS Linux, 39

Message of the day, 388

Method overriding, in Java, 739–740

Methods

in Java, 741

in OOP, 729

mget command, 259

Microsoft Windows. See Windows

Mid-range computer, 440

Minimal protection level (Orange book), 353

Minimal Technical applications (HP-UX), 24

Mission Critical applications (HP-UX), 24

mkdir (make directory) command, 73, 660

mkfs command, 405, 407

MKS toolkit, 537–538

Moderated newsgroups, 285

Modules directory, 462–463

more command, 85, 87

Mosaic web browser, 290–291

motd messages (/etc/motd), 388

Motif, 15, 193–194

Motif 2.1API, 194

mount command, 390–391, 409, 450–451, 453

Mount point, 366, 408, 445

mountall command, 451

Mounted file systems, displaying, 390–391

Mounted resources, displaying, 453

Mounting

explained, 366, 523

of a remote resource, 445

Mounting a file system, 408, 442, 445

from CD-ROM, 409

from floppy disk, 408

from hard disk, 408

move command, with xargs, 615

Movie players, 775–777

Mozilla web browser, 291, 781–782

MpegTV Player (mtv), 777

MPlayer, 775–776

mput command, 259–260

msg command, 48

MTAs (mail transport agents), 227

MUA (mail user agent), 227, 506

Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing System), 9

Multimedia add-on tools, 777–778

Multimedia players and viewers, Internet, 785–787

Multiprotocol instant messaging, 784

Multitasking concepts, 5, 358

Multitasking machines, 528

Multithreaded programming, 750–751

Multiuser concepts, 358

Multiuser states, 373

Multiuser UNIX, 5

Multivalued variables, 119

mutt (mail reader), 234–238

address book, 236

configuring, 236–237

mail list, 235

obtaining, 235

reading mail, 235–236

remote mail, 237–238

sending mail, 236

mv command, 68–69

MySQL Query Browser, 768–769, 825–827