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Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther
by Dave Taylor, Brian Jepson

This errata page lists errors outstanding in the most recent printing.

If you have technical questions or error reports, you can send them to
booktech@oreilly.com.  Please specify the printing date of your copy.

This page was updated September 15, 2004.

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



Confirmed errors:


{31}  1st paragraph;
The section in parentheses reads in part 
"the shell waits for a background program to finish before giving a new prompt. A long-running 
background program may thus appear to hang the terminal."

it should say:

"the shell waits for a child program to finish before giving a new prompt. A long-running child
program may thus appear to hang the terminal."


{43}  first example;

The second ls -F should be removed.


{75}  third paragraph, describing hard links;
you discuss making a hard link to fig0403.pdf, yet show:

$ ln mypic.pdf copy2.pdf

neither of which exist in that directory, according to the listing example at the page's top.


(76) 1st paragraph;
"This also implies a peculiar behaviour of symbolic links (and Aqua aliases): move, rename, 
or remove the item being pointed to and you have an orphan link."
should be:
"This also implies a peculiar behaviour of symbolic links: move, rename,
or remove the item being pointed to and you have an orphan link."


(88)  3rd paragraph in section "cat";
It is "bash", not "bassh".


[89]  second example;
$ ls
mylogin   today   users   ...

"mylogin" should be "mybashrc" to make consistent with the previous example?


(109)  third paragraph (above the warning symbol);
Extra opening quote sign before the word Documentation.


(145)  last two items in the listing;
When you describe the GIMP windows from screenshot 9-16 in *clockwise* order from
top, you must mention the window "GIMP Tip of the Day" before the window "Layers,
Channels, and Paths", not after.