The Perl CD Bookshelf, Version 2.0
By O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

This page was updated January 31, 2002 

Here's a key to the markup:

        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification


UNCONFIRMED errors and comments from readers:


***Note*** There are fixes to most of these problems in the
file available at http://examples.oreilly.com/9780596001643/
*********


[n/a]  n/a;
The java search applet does NOT launch when I attempt to use it.  I'm using a WinME
platform w/ IE 5.50 and have no problems running anything else that requires java.
I've applied the latest patch but nothing changes.


[prog\ch01_02.htm]  1.2.1.2.2. End of 1st paragraph (Figure 1.1);
No figure

[perlnut/ch04_06.htm] - Perl in a Nutshell, Chapter 4.6.8;
The description of the extension

(?<!=...)
   A zero-width negative lookbehind assertion. For example, /(?<!=bad)boy/ matches
any occurrence of "boy" that doesn't follow "bad". This only works for fixed-width
lookbehind.

is wrong. It should be

(?<!...)
   A zero-width negative lookbehind assertion. For example, /(?<!bad)boy/ matches any
occurrence of "boy" that doesn't follow "bad". This only works for fixed-width
lookbehind.

to make it work (the equal sign must be removed at two places).


[prog/ch05_07.htm]  5.7.1  Paragraph 8 (?) (Figure 5.1);
No figure


[ch07_17.htm] bottom of the page;
The link to "Typeglobs and Filehandles" goes to 
prog/ch02_03.htm#PERL2-CH-2-SECT-3.6
when perhaps it should go to prog/ch02_10.htm. (I'm thinking that would find it
in the _2nd_ edition of "Programming Perl" ...)


[prog/ch08_01.htm]  8.1 Paragraph 2 (Figure 8.1);
No figure


[prog/ch08_02.htm]  8.2.2.1 Paragraph 2 (Figure 8.2);
No figure

[ch18_01.htm]  Figure 18.1;
The Figures for this chapter are missing from this page in Programming Perl 
(3rd Edition).  ch18_02.htm appears to have a similar problem.


(/prog/ch29_02.htm)  All throughout the page;
The anchors in this page should come before the name and prototype info for each function -- i.e., the "<a name=...>" tags should c
ome after the "<p>" and before the "<blockquote>".

As things currently stand, if I go from the index to a function, the text description of the function gets displayed at the top of 
my browser window, and I have to scroll up a bit in order to see the name of the function and the description of its arguments.



[prog/ch31_22.htm]  31.22 Paragraph 4 (Figure 31.1);
No figure


[CD]  number and c whole book indexes.;
The indexes for the numerals and 'c' are completely broken for the combined 
indexes. They don't include the book name in the URL rendering them useless.

Please post fixed ones!!!


[cookbook/ch07_06.htm]  First code sample in "Discussion" section;
In the "for (;;)" loop, I believe $name = tmpnam() should be
$tmpnam = tmpnam().  Note that the rest of the code snippet
uses the variable $tmpnam, not $name.

[prog/ch12_07.htm]  Near end of section 12.7.3;
In the sample AUTOLOAD method, the line

croak "$self not an object" unless ref($invocant);

should read as follows:

croak "$self not an object" unless ref($self);

(I.e., $invocant should be $self.)


(prog/ch11_01.htm)  3rd paragraph from the end;
In the sentence starting with "The other difference is . . .", there
should be a space between "purge" and "MODULE" in the example:

(such as $ob = purge MODULE)
                    ^

[CD /index/idx_0.htm]  Master Index Search - the Symbols page;
All links are broken on this page.  F:\index\idx_0.htm  (F: is my CD-rom 
drive).

All the links point to the F:\index directory.  So the first entry ("@+ 
array of ending positions: 28.2. Special Variables in Alphabetical Order") 
points to F:\ch28_02.htm#INDEX-4509.  When it should point to something 
like F:\prog\ch28_02.htm#INDEX-4509.


[CD] Figure 8.1. A hard reference and a symbolic reference;
Figure missing from Chapter 8 of Programming Perl


[CD]  On the CD;
The links in the "Master Index" are all messed up. The addresses are 
missing which directory (book) the html file is in.

Do you have corrected HTML files? How about a corrected CD? If not, I think 
you should consider producing one or the other.


(CD)  many pages throughout the CD;
In _Programming Perl_ and _Perl for System Administration_, all
the non-ASCII special characters (represented by "&#nnn;" numeric
HTML escape sequences) are mangled.

The ampersand in these sequences has been replaced by "&amp;" --
for example, the "e-with-diaeresis" (&#235;) is "&amp;#235;" instead.

Here is a list of the affected files on the CD:

prog/ch01_03.htm
prog/ch01_07.htm
prog/ch05_02.htm
prog/ch07_02.htm
prog/ch25_09.htm
prog/ch26_01.htm
prog/ch26_02.htm
prog/ch29_02.htm
sysadmin/appb_01.htm
sysadmin/ch00_04.htm
sysadmin/ch01_02.htm
sysadmin/ch01_03.htm
sysadmin/ch01_05.htm
sysadmin/ch02_01.htm
sysadmin/ch02_06.htm
sysadmin/ch03_05.htm
sysadmin/ch04_03.htm
sysadmin/ch08_03.htm
sysadmin/ch09_07.htm
sysadmin/ch10_04.htm