This book covers a lot of ground, as one would expect from anything with the word “Definitive” in its title. It is divided into three main parts. As much as possible, each part is written so that it can be read independently of the others. Even individual chapters are written this way, within reason; to avoid too much repetition, I’ll periodically refer to other chapters.
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You should read this book if you want to extract data from OpenDocument files, convert your data to OpenDocument format, or simply find out how the format works.
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You should read this book if you want to extract data from an OpenOffice.org document, convert your data to an OpenOffice.org document, or simply find out how OpenOffice.org stores its data “under the hood.”
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Don’t be intimidated by the size of this book: You can use MH, xmh, exmh or mh-e right away by reading the quick-start tutorials. The rest of the book is here to help you do much more, but you don’t have to read it all!
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TeX is a tool for creating professional quality, typeset pages of any kind. It is particularly good, perhaps unsurpassed, at typesetting mathematics ; as a result, it is widely used in scientific writing.
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There is more than one way to poison the soil in which profound ideals might otherwise flourish. The most obvious blight, perhaps, results from the kind of cynicism or fatalism that prevents germination in the first place.
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This book describes how to write applications using the Motif toolkit from the Open Software Foundation (OSF). The Motif toolkit is based on the X Toolkit Intrinsics (Xt), which is the standard mechanism on which many of the toolkits written for the X Window System are based.
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This book is written for computer-literate folk who want to use Subversion to manage their data. While Subversion runs on a number of different operating systems, its primary user interface is command-line based. It is that command-line tool (svn) which is discussed and used in this book. Read the rest of this entry »

When the World Wide Web was born, there was only one web server and one web client. The httpd web server was developed by the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherche Nucléaires (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland.
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This book does not cover the Linux kernel in its entirety, of course, but Linux device driver authors need to know how to work with many of the kernel’s subsystems.
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