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Preface -

UNIX Systems Programming for SVR4
David A. Curry
 Copyright © 1996 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

Acknowledgments
First and foremost, I am grateful to my wife, Cathy, without whose love and support this book would not have been possible. I am also grateful to our sons, Trevor and Sean, who tried their best not to bother Daddy while he was writing. Thanks, guys.
At O'Reilly & Associates, I would like to thank my editor, Mike Loukides, who provided good advice and useful comments, as well as patience and understanding, throughout the writing process. I would also like to thank Tim O'Reilly, who, as before, was a pleasure to work for. And, I would like to thank all the people who helped to turn the manuscript into a real book: Dianna Vosburg and Toby Boyd, who copyedited the manuscript, Nancy Crumpton who, with Michael Deutsch, painstakingly made all the changes and checked everything twice; Seth Maislin, who wrote the index; and Clairemarie Fisher O'Leary, who, as project manager, kept it all together.
I used the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) as the formatting markup for this book, rather than using troff or TeX as most UNIX books use. SGML is specified by the International Standards Organization (ISO) as International Standard ISO 8879, with the DocBook Document Type Definition (DTD) developed by the Davenport Group. As I was one of the first O'Reilly authors to attempt this, several people at O'Reilly & Associates provided special assistance. I would like to thank Lenny Muellner, Norm Walsh, and Lar Kaufman for all their work on the new formatting tools, which they developed as I was writing the book. They worked awfully hard to keep their tools current with what I was doing at the time, and almost always succeeded. I would also like to thank Terry Allen, who put up with my questions, complaints, and frustrations as I discovered problems and needed clarifications with the DocBook DTD.
I would like to thank James Clark, the author of the sgmls validating SGML parser, and Lennart Staflin, the author of the psgml SGML major mode for GNU Emacs. Both of these tools were invaluable in the preparation of the manuscript, and both of them were freely available because of their authors' generosity.
I would like to thank Larry Dunkel, at Hewlett-Packard, who arranged my access to a HP-UX 10.0 system and answered numerous questions.
At Purdue University, I would like to thank Debi Foster, who worked out all the bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo so that I could use parts of Using C on the UNIX System in this book.
Finally, I would like to thank my reviewers, Casper Dik, Gerry Singleton, and Dave Pfennighaus, for their patience and attention to detail. The book is better because of their efforts.

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