Chapter . About the CD-ROM

Script files and datafiles are contained in separate directories for each appropriate chapter.

The script names and datafile names are the same as in the book.

NOTESome of the early scripts send mail to a specified list of persons, so you may choose not to run these scripts (or you may want to change the list to just include your own e-mail address to ensure it works okay).

For example, to run Example 2.6, just change directory to chap02 and run “example02.06” from the command line. (You may need to run “chmod +x example02.06” after copying it to your hard disk to ensure that it has execute permission. If so, you'll have to do this for every script file.) The script “example02.06” requires a datafile named “guests” which ...

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