Errata

Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther

Errata for Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther

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The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released. If the error was corrected in a later version or reprint the date of the correction will be displayed in the column titled "Date Corrected".

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Color key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update

Version Location Description Submitted By Date submitted Date corrected
Printed
Page 26
footnote, the sentence

"You can read more precise definitions of these terms and others in the Glossary."
HAS BEEN DELETED.

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2004
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Page 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."

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 33
bottom of the page, the sentence

(To see how this appears in the Finder, see Figure 3-7)
HAS BEEN DELETED.

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2004
Printed
Page 43
first example

The second ls -F should be removed.

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 59
Wildcard examples, bottom of page

For the last example, ls *a*a*, the following entries HAVE BEEN ADDED:

chap1a.old.txt haha.txt

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2004
Printed
Page 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.

 Anonymous   
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Page 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."

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 88
3rd paragraph in section "cat"

It is "bash", not "bassh".

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 89
second example

$ ls
mylogin today users ...

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

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 104
first paragraph

the kill example kills PID 473; this paragraph referenced ID number 472.

It NOW REFERENCES ID number 473.

 Anonymous    Apr 01, 2004
Printed
Page 109
third paragraph (above the warning symbol)

Extra opening quote sign before the word Documentation.

 Anonymous   
Printed
Page 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.

 Anonymous