Mac OS X in a Nutshell
by Chuck Toporek, Chris Stone, Jason McIntosh

The 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.

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

This page was updated October 15, 2003.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 

[42]  Table 1-2;
"Holding the T key at startup will boot from a FireWire drive, if it has a bootable
system folder" is totally incorrect.

This entry should be "Holding the T key at startup will boot the computer in target
mode, allowing the computer's main hard disk to act as a standard FireWire drive that
can be accessed from another computer with a FireWire port."


[89]  3rd paragraph, Startup Options section;
You fail to mention here that these startup options only apply if and only if Classic
is started from this pane. Otherwise, Classic will startup as defined in the
"Start/Stop" pane.

Likewise, the "Use key combination" option is not to start or stop Classic (try it
for yourself and it won't work) : they are used while Classic is started as a signal
that one may use to disable/modify the behaviour of certain extensions at startup.
You may recall having to press on certain keys (like shift to disable the extensions
and control panels) while Mac OS 7, 8 or 9 started... This entry allows for this
option.


(319)  2nd paragraph under 'Mail Delivery Agents' subtitle, last sentence;
"consider using the 'quota' command (see Chapter 25) ..."

no such command listed in Chapter 25


{330}  Second paragraph;
DBI stands for Database Independent and
DBD stands for Database Dependent, *not* Database Interface and Database Driver, as
the book states.


(473)  Sixth entry under "Filename Metacharacters";
The sixth entry in the table under Filename Metacharacters is missing part of a word:
It reads

~name          Home directory of username
while it should (I think) read
~username   Home directory of username


{713}  shutdown entry;
The shutdown command appears to work as described in the current (10.2.4) man page,
but the entry in the book includes a non-functional "-c" switch, and describes the "-
k" switch incompletely. Perhaps this was a recent change in OS X, since the book was
written?