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Chapter File Comments
Chapter 10 Dickens.note The introduction to the wonderful book "A Tale of Two Cities", this is used throughout the different editor tutorial chapters.
Chapter 18 printers.sh This script demonstrates how to write your own UNIX command as a shell script, showing you all the available printers for your use in /etc/printcap
Chapter 23 utils.c, fget.c, fget.h A simple front-end for the ugly FTP program, this demonstrates many of the key ideas in the C programming language and is pretty useful too
Chapter 24 exchange.pl,
build-exchrate.pl
Shifting from C into Perl, this pair of programs grabs the current currency exchange rates from the Yahoo financials Web site, and gives you an easy command-line-based currency converter program
Appendix A exchange.cgi Exploring how to work with the Apache Web Server within the UNIX environment, this is a rewrite of the currency converter shown in chapter 22 to be a web-based application. (currently offline)


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