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 termcap & terminfo is a great black cockatoo. This large crested parrot is native to Australia and islands in the Malayan Archipelago. Largest of all the parrots, the great black cockatoo can grow up to 32 inches in height. It has bluish-black plumage with bare, pink cheeks that redden when it becomes excited. As a cockatoo, it is distinguished from other parrots in its ability to raise the feathers of its crest. UNIX and its attendant programs can be unruly beasts. Nutshell Handbooks(R) help you tame them.

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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 SoftQuadUs sqtroff text formatter. Figures are produced with a Macintosh. Printing is done on an Apple LaserWriter.