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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 "Corrected".

The following errata were submitted by our customers and approved as valid errors by the author or editor.

Color Key: Serious Technical Mistake Minor Technical Mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question



Version Location Description Submitted By Corrected
Printed Page 11
code listing half way down the page

$ cat -n a.vbs
1
2
3 strFile = "c:abc_7-1-05_out.txt"
4 const ForAppending = 8
5 set objFSO = createObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
6 ' set objfile = objfso.opentextfile(strFile,constForAppending,True)
7 ' set objfile = objfso.opentextfile(strFile,const ForAppending,True)
8 ' set objfile = objfso.opentextfile(strFile,ForAppending,True)
9 set objFile = objFSO.openTextFile(strFile,8,True)
10
11 objFile.WriteLine("script completed: " & Now)
12 objFile.Close
13

In line 4, change "const ForAppending" to "constForAppending".

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 140
last paragraph

"One way to make available sby publishing them..."
should be:
"One way to make it available is by publishing it..."

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 168
Sixth line reads : > taskkill -pid <PID>

I tested the above line and it did not work on my XP. I checked the syntax and it
should be:

taskkill /pid <PID>

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 168
8th line

> taskkill /s <ServerName> -im <ProcessName>
should be:
> taskkill /s <ServerName> /im <ProcessName>
^

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 609
Appendix A, 3rd paragraph, last sentence

"Operatings that affect an object are known as methods."

change "Operatings" to "Operations"

 Anonymous 
Printed Page 646
in the index;

at the top of the first column, please move the line
"command-line interface, servers (continued)" to the top of the page.

 Anonymous