UNIX System Administration Handbook, Third Edition

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We produced the first edition of this book with the UNIX troff package. For the second edition, we used a Macintosh. We produced this third edition entirely on Microsoft Windows 95, 98, and 2000. Oh, such delight! We’ll never touch UNIX again.

We used Adobe FrameMaker for layout, with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop for graphics and illustrations. We also used Adobe Acrobat throughout the production process. It allowed us to distribute chapters and graphic files to many different people without worrying about fonts or application compatibility. We delivered the final manuscript as an Acrobat file, too.

Tyler Curtain drew the cartoons using pen and ink. We scanned them on a desktop scanner, cleaned them up in Photoshop, and converted ...