Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date Submitted |
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Printed | Page IX 2nd paragraph, 4th line |
The sentence goes as follows: |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page X title 'Part I, ...', 'Chapter 2, ...', first line |
The abbreviation of Open System Interconnect isn't OCI but OSI. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page xiv 2nd paragraph in acknowlegments |
Mr. Ben Mazza for sharing his to love of language and literature. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page Page 8 Second to Last Paragraph |
The entire subsection "Radio Frequency" is in error. The term "RF Networks" refers to a wide range of networks; as well as any "wireless network". The paragraphs suggest that "RF Networks" are different than "wireless network" but really it encompasses them all. A perfect example of this: "The architecture of RF is also similar to wireless. They differ only in the frequencies of the radios and the range of the network." RF networks = wireless networks. The terms are almost identical, except for the fact that RF is used in almost any kind of network, wired or not, but in this case the author seems to think otherwise. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 6 5th para |
A well-written network application should run safely across the entire range of connected organizers, regardless of whom has made them. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 6 4th paragraph |
The company TRG is now known as HandEra. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 7 First Illustration |
Figure 1-1, "Dial-up networking architecture" contains a drawing of a PalmV device, sitting in a cradle or modem-type device. Under this drawing, it says "Device with Wireless Modem", and it clearly has a wire sticking out of it going to the ISP drawing. This illustration is for the dialup paradigm, and thus the heading under the PalmV should say "Device with Wired Modem" or something similar. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 7 Last Paragraph |
There is a single quote in front of the word similar in "similar to wired modems." that is never closed. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 7 First Illustration |
Figure 1-1, "Dial-up networking architecture" contains a drawing of a PalmV device, sitting in a cradle or modem-type device. Under this drawing, it says "Device with Wireless Modem", and it clearly has a wire sticking out of it going to the ISP drawing. This illustration is for the dialup paradigm, and thus the heading under the PalmV should say "Device with Wired Modem" or something similar. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 9 2nd paragraph |
On page 9, the author mentions that 250 MBits per second is about the speed of a cable modem. No cable modem I know of goes that fast, but, irregardless, on the previous page, he says that a cablemodem runs at about 300kbps, which is a clear contradiction of his own definiton. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 10 Second Paragraph |
The author says that a Palm's serial connection runs at a maximum of 56k, but in reality the majority of Palms (every palm made since about 1997) can run at 115.2k. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 10.2.6 Don't know - I'm using Safari Online! |
The code snippets showing the use of netFDSet and netFDISSet have the arguments |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 16, 17 title 'The Network Protocol Stack', 2nd paragraph |
You refer to Figure 2-3, which should illustrate how each layer int the protocol stack wraps a protocol-specific envelope around the data. But the figure who matches this description is Figure 2-3 but Figure 2-4. So you refer to the wrong picture. Same mistake on page 17 (subtitle 'Internetworking', 1st paragraph), this time you refer to Figure 2-4 as representing the logical model for packet routing. But this description matches Figure 2-3. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 20 subtitle 'Session Protocols', 4th paragraph, 1st sentence |
"it is important that it end", should be "it is important that it ends" |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 85 Second code snippet |
An example of using NetLibIFGet is shown in the second code snippet. |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 111 footnote to table |
Pointers are described as taking 2 bytes. The Linux prc tools, with which I've built |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 114 figure 7-2 |
The text below the figure describes how, due to a bug in the structure layout, the |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 216 4th paragraph |
Example code is: |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 331 Example 13-4 |
Theres a few typos in the example, |
Anonymous |