The Art of Unix Programming (original) (raw)
Copyright � 2003 Eric S. Raymond
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AIX, AS/400, DB/2, OS/2, System/360, MVS, VM/CMS, and IBM PC are trademarks of IBM. Alpha, DEC, VAX, HP-UX, PDP, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, VMS, and VT-100 are trademarks of Compaq. Amiga and AmigaOS are trademarks of Amiga, Inc. Apple, Macintosh, MacOS, Newton, OpenDoc, and OpenStep are trademarks of Apple Computers, Inc. ClearCase is a trademark of Rational Software, Inc. Ethernet is a trademark of 3COM, Inc. Excel, MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows and PowerPoint are trademarks of Microsoft, Inc. Java. J2EE, JavaScript, NeWS, and Solaris are trademarks of Sun Microsystems. SPARC is a trademark of SPARC international. Informix is a trademark of Informix software. Itanium is a trademark of Intel. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds. Netscape is a trademark of AOL. PDF and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe, Inc. UNIX is a trademark of The Open Group.
The photograph of Ken and Dennis in Chapter�2 appears courtesy of Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies.
The epigraph on the Portability chapter is from the Bell System Technical Journal, v57 #6 part 2 (July-Aug. 1978) pp. 2021-2048 and is reproduced with the permission of Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies.
| Revision History | ||
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| Revision 1.0 | 19 September 2003 | esr |
| This is the content that went to Addison-Wesley's printers. | ||
| Revision 0.4 | 5 February 2003 | esr |
| Release for public review. | ||
| Revision 0.3 | 22 January 2003 | esr |
| First eighteen-chapter draft. Manuscript walkthrough at Chapter 12. Limited release for early reviewers. | ||
| Revision 0.2 | 2 January 2003 | esr |
| First manuscript walkthrough at Chapter 7. Released to Dmitry Kirsanov at AW production. | ||
| Revision 0.1 | 16 November 2002 | esr |
| First DocBook draft, fifteen chapters. Languages rewritten to incorporate lots of feedback. Transparency, Modularity, Multiprogramming, Configuration, Interfaces, Documentation, and Open Source chapters released. Shipped to Mark Taub at AW. | ||
| Revision 0.0 | 1999 | esr |
| Public HTML draft, first four chapters only. |