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Programming with GNU Software

Errata for Programming with GNU Software

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date Submitted
Printed Page 138
paragraphs 3 & 5

NB: January 1997 edition

Paragraph 3 discusses <b>break</b> <i>function-name</i>;
paragraph 5 discusses <b>break</b> <i>routine-name</i>.

It's unclear to me how the two differ.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 143
first line

NB: January 1997 edition

The first command in the example is `where', which isn't
explained until p. 150. A forward reference would be nice.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 150
end of first paragraph, after the two-line example

It's mentioned that the filename gets single quotes in the
second line: why is that? Is is because we've supplied an
extension to the filename, or other?

 Anonymous