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From: "Adam J. Thornton" <adam@phoenix.princeton.edu>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 22:52:10 -0400
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 06:51:46PM -0700, J C Lawrence wrote:
> > Definitely get Stevens at some point, because while you'll
> > eventually outgrow Comer... no one outgrows Stevens. "TCP/IP
> > Illustrated" is one of those series everyone OUGHT to have, but not
> > enough people do. I consider him about as essential as Knuth.
> Its worth noting that Stevens is doing a second and significantly
> updated edition of his three volume TCP/IP series. So far only book
> one is out (that I head of), and has been receiving excellant reviews.
Stevens of Stevens and Comer is not Stevens of UNP and APUE. However, V. 1
of _Unix Network Programming_ *is* in 2d. ed., the others are coming out,
and it is a fantastic book. Although there's a big nasty bug in his
threads code, so make *sure* you download the errata from his web site.
Adam
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