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Re: TCP sockets timeout...



Hold your horses everyone...There has never been, nor would there ever will
be a "W. (William) Richard
Stevens" Linux port of his much acclaimed UNP series. This R. J. Stevens
you're talking about is another
 guy...Another author sometime people think is UNP's Stevens is David L.
Stevens.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter L. Peres <plp@actcom.co.il>
To: linux-il <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>
Date: יום שישי 02 אוקטובר 1998 15:15
Subject: Re: TCP sockets timeout...


>On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote:
>
>> What do you mean Stevens FOR Linux? The Advanced Programming in the unix
>> env., the Unix netowk programming or a special volume in the tcp/ip
>> series?
>
>The Unix network programming, in the TCP/IP series, rewritten with code,
>examples, environments and shell commands FOR Linux, and not only. There
>is a full page map on the back showing all the systems the code
>covers/refers to, besides Linux. They had to use small print for the logos
>in the bubbles to fit them all in ;) If Bill Gates sees this map he is
>going to need to smell salts ;)
>
>Does not say which kind of Linux but with pthreads == fairly recent.
>
>> I didn't know Stevens had a book FOR LINUX.
>
>Neither did I until this morning. Under the bookshelf there are boxes of
>Red Hat 5.0 and 5.1 (official). Not many. In front of the boxes there are
>stacks of 'L98 professional companion whatnot'. I had to move them to
>have a good look. The pile fell over, of course ;) Oops ;)
>
>> How much does it cost?
>
>NIS 355 or so ;(. I got some off because I buy often. This is not the
>paperback student edition, it is cartoned, like the real thing. No leather
>though ;) From what I've seen inside it is worth the money imho. Someone
>did some research on the real thing, this is not a theoretical treatise.
>
>Peter
>
>PS: Just in case you were wondering: I do not work there, I do not get a
>commission, and I do not sell books in general.
>
>