Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Ian Clarke <i_d_cla...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Rich Teer wrote:
> >> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Ian Clarke wrote:

> >> > Do you mean what I think you do? Looking at the two books
> >> > I now start to see what I think you mean. I looked at Teer
> >> > chapter 16 (Process Relationships) and chapter 9 of Stevens
> >> > Advanced Programming in The Unix Environment:

> >> I cover a superset of what Stevens does, and I imitated his
writing
> >> style (because I greatly admire it; that's one of the reasons why
> >> I thank Rich Stevens in the acknowledgements section).  It
shouldn't
> >> be too surprising, then, that there are similarities.

> Steven's book is, however, not mentioned in the bibliography
> (only the 3 editions of the unrelated book on network programming).

> >> If I was plagerising APUE, as some people seem to be implying,
> >> don't you think it would have taken a lot less than FOUR YEARS?
> >> I also notice that those same people aren't so quick to point
> >> out the myriad of differences between the two books.

> > Perhaps because it is the number of marked similarities
> > that is so striking.

> >> It seems that some people just aren't happy unless they're
shittin'
> >> on someone's parade.

> > No. Some people are curious about how parts of the two books
> > could be so similar.

> Well, I was curious, and asked.  But I did not receive a proper