UNIX in a Nutshell: System V Edition
by Daniel Gilly


Here are the changes for the 5/98 reprint.  


Some of the book's element were reprinted for design changes rather than
technical corrections.


Design changes:

pages i, ii, and iii
all the part pages


Content changes:

(xii) changed "Command Index" to "Index"


(6-3) \( \) entry: made the quotes around "replayed" match


<index> the whole index is new.  You can send mail to booktech@oreilly.com 
for more information.


(colophon) the author bio and the book info are both new:

About the Author

Daniel Gilly has been with O'Reilly & Associates since 1986. In
addition to co-authoring The X Window System in a Nutshell, Daniel has
had an editorial hand in several books in the X Window series, wrote
the reference section of Volume Six, Motif Programming Manual, and
revised the Nutshell Handbook, Learning vi, for its fifth edition.

For the past two years, Daniel has been the editor of the newsletter
for MIT Crew. He has also written a musical comedy, a radio thriller,
and a one-act play, all of which were performed at Boston-area
colleges. He graduated from MIT in 1985 with a B.S. in Mechanical
Engineering. Having lived in the Boston area for ten years, Daniel
moved to Silicon Valley in June 1992.


Colophon

The animal featured on the cover of Unix in a Nutshell is a tarsier, a
nocturnal mammal related to the lemur. Its generic name, Tarsius, is
derived from the animal's very long ankle bone, the tarsus. The
tarsier is a native of the East Indies jungles from Sumatra to the
Philippines and Sulawesi, where it lives in the trees, leaping from
branch to branch with extreme agility and speed.

A small animal, the tarsier's body is only six inches long, followed
by a ten-inch tufted tail. It is covered in soft brown or grey silky
fur, has a round face, and huge eyes. Its arms and legs are long and
slender, as are its digits, which are tipped with rounded, fleshy pads
to improve the tarsier's grip on trees. Tarsiers are active only at
night, hiding during the day in tangles of vines or in the tops of
tall trees. They subsist mainly on insects, and though very curious
animals, tend to be loners.

Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, using a 19th-century
engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was
produced with QuarkXPress 3.32 using the ITC Garamond font. The
inside layout was designed by Nancy Priest and implemented in troff by
Lenny Muellner. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and
Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were created
in Macromedia Freehand 5.0 by Chris Reilley. This colophon was written
by Michael Kalantarian.

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