Errata
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 "Date 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 Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted By | Date submitted | Date corrected |
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Printed | Page xii In the Preface, the section "This book has four parts", line 5 |
there is extra space between "4" and the comma. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 3 In Chapter 1, the third bullet, Microsoft Network, there is a |
double period at end of paragraph. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 13 |
In Chapter 2, paragraph 2, first sentence used to read: |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 13 Deleted the final margin note, "FTP FAQ". It was obsolete. |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2000 | ||
Printed | Page 15 In Figure 2-4, "A Typical Usenet Article": The whole body |
text should be highlighted, to match the style of Figure 2-5 on |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 19 |
In quiz question #3 it used to read: |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 33 In Chapter 3, "Greek history" is now in courier font, |
where it says "enter the query Greek history." |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 44 |
In Chapter 4, Final bullet ("Netscape News"), it now reads: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 59 In Chapter 5, in the final paragraph before sidebar, the words |
AND, OR and NOT should each be in courier font. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 77 |
In Chapter 6, the second sentence used to read: |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 82 In the third bulleted item, deleted |
"and Gateway 2000 uses gw2k.com," |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 89 At the end of the first full paragraph, deleted |
"At press time, one is located at http://..." |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 89 In "do a Web search for traceroute", "traceroute" is now in |
Courier font. |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 91-106 In Chapter 7 (throughout), every occurrence of |
"Frances'" |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 96 |
The URL used to read: |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 115 In Chapter 8, the third bullet, Microsoft Network, the menu |
now reads: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 121 In Chapter 9, Microsoft Network bullet: change "of" to "Of" in |
"Browse All of MSN". |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 121 In the Microsoft Network bullet, deleted the double period at |
the end. |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 124 In the "Search by Category" section, first paragraph ("Another |
way to search..."): in the final line, the word "and" is typeset in |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 129 |
In row 6 ("prompt"), the third column now reads: |
Anonymous | ||
Printed | Page 134 In Chapter 10, in the margin note, deleted the third URL that |
read: |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 165 |
The final sentence now used to read: |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 168 |
Changed the Webster's Dictionary URL to read: |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2000 | |
Printed | Page 171 Deleted the Mammoth Music Meta-List entry. |
Anonymous | Feb 01, 2000 |