Features

• Beyond Your First Shell Script  by Brian Rice
  How to write versatile, robust Bourne shell scripts that will run flawlessly under other shells as well.
  
• Diff, Patch, and Friends  by Michael K Johnson
  De-mystifying patches and the tools used to create and apply them.
  
• Auto-loading Kernel Modules  by Preston F. Crow
  Make your system leaner by modularizing the kernel.
  
• The Cold, Thin Edge  by Todd Graham Lewis
  Taking the Shell Paradigm to its Brutal Limits. Whether you use Tcl, shells, Perl, or C, there is usually an option whereby tools from one programming environment can be imported into another. Here's how to “push the envelope”.
  
• Basic fvwm Configuration, Part 2  by John M Fisk
  Customizing the Desktop. Organize and customize those pop-up menu entries.
  

News and Articles

• Mobile-IP  by Ben Lancki, Abhijit Dixit, and Vipul Gupta
  Transparent Host Migration on the Internet
  
• Graphing with Gnuplot and Xmgr  by Andy Vaught
  Two graphing packages available under Linux
  
• Certifying Linux  
  by Heiko Eissfeldt
  

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