Porting UNIX Software From Download to Debug

By Greg Lehey

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Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects. The animal featured on the cover of Porting UNIX Software: From Download to Debug is a South American iguana. This fierce-looking reptile, which can grow up to seven feet in length, can be found in forested areas near rivers throughout South America. Older iguanas feed primarily on plant vegetation, but when younger they prefer to feed on small animals. Iguanas often climb tall trees to bask in their sun-drenched canopies. If disturbed from its rest, an iguana may quickly dive into the river surface below, where it is quite at home. The iguana has developed quick reflex movements to escape impending danger. It will also defend against predators itself using crushing snaps of its long, muscular tail. UNIX and its attendant programs can be unruly beasts. Nutshell Handbooks help you tame them. ... Edie Freedman designed the cover of this book, using a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. The cover layout was produced with Quark XPress 3.3 using the ITC Garamond font. The inside layout was designed by Edie Freedman, Jennifer Niederst and, Nancy Priest. Text was prepared in SGML using the DocBook 2.1 DTD. The print version of this book was created by translating the SGML source into a set of gtroff macros using a filter developed at ORA by Norman Walsh. Steve Talbott designed and wrote the underlying macro set on the basis of the GNU troff -gs macros; Lenny Muellner adapted them to SGML and implemented the book design. The GNU groff text formatter version 1.09 was used to generate PostScript output. The text and heading fonts are ITC Garamond Light and Garamond Book. The illustrations that appear in the book were created in Macromedia Freehand 5.0 by Chris Reilley. This colophon was written by Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary.

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