Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects.

The animal featured on the cover of Using UUCP and Usenet is a greater kudu, a large African antelope. The greater kudu is distingished by its markings--a tawny red to slaty blue-grey in color with a white stripe along the spine and thin white vertical stripes on its sides. The white markings are offset by a darker mane on the back and a fringe of long hair at the throat. The males have long horns, up to 52 inches in length, which are twisted in a two-turn open spiral. These wary, gentle beasts are found in southern and eastern Africa on brushy plains or in mountainous country where they hide by day, emerging at dawn and dusk to feed.

UNIX and its attendant programs can be unruly beasts. Nutshell Handbooks(R) help you tame them.

Edie Freedman designed this cover and the entire UNIX bestiary that appears on other Nutshell Handbooks. The beasts themselves are adapted from 19th-century engravings from the Dover Pictorial Archive.

The text of this book is set in Times Roman; headings are Helvetica; examples are Courier. Text was prepared using SortQuad's sqtroff text formatter. Figures are produced with a Macintosh. Printing is done on an Apple LaserWriter.