About The Author

Warren W. Gay is a supervisor at Mackenzie Financial Corporation in Toronto, Canada. There he supervises a small team of UNIX programmers who manage the Mackenzie Investment Management System (IMS). Warren is also the author of Sams Teach Yourself Linux Programming in 24 Hours and Que's Linux Socket Programming by Example.

Programming professionally since 1980, he has used a number of assembler languages and PL/1, Lisp, C, and C++. He has been programming UNIX since 1986 and Linux since 1994. Warren has contributed Linux software packages, such as the ftpbackup program and the rewrite of the popular wavplay program. You can find these and his other Linux packages at sunsite.unc.edu and its mirror FTP sites.

Warren holds an advanced ...

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