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Ian Clarke  
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 More options Feb 24 2005, 7:45 pm
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From: "Ian Clarke" <i_d_cla...@yahoo.com>
Date: 24 Feb 2005 16:45:32 -0800
Local: Thurs, Feb 24 2005 7:45 pm
Subject: Re: Time Zone
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Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Rich Teer <rich.t...@rite-group.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Stu wrote:

> >> How does the date command print TZ.

> >> For example,

> >> date
> >> Tue Feb 22 18:19:44 EST 2005

> >> Does anybody have some sample "C" code that can do this

> > man strftime  (and/or buy my book!)

> Actually
>    man date
> is the preferred starting point.  It does point to strftime, but
provides
> additional context.

> Given that, there's no point in buying your book, unless for research
> purposes
> one chooses to compare it against Stevens' book.

> > Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, author of "Solaris Systems Programming"
>                          (I'd use another word there)

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:

* several paragraphs seem eerily similar in Teer and Stevens
  (paragraph sequences that match, same order of ideas in
  paragraphs, even quite similar wording in sentences)
* the majority of the diagrams in these chapters are nearly or
  exactly the same
* the section titles are mostly the same, and in the same order
* even the titles of the chapters are the same

It seems unlikely that could have happened by chance.

Comparing chapter 15 of Teer with chapter 8 of Stevens (both
called Process Control), in most cases eaqch program in Teer
matches one in Stevens, excepting changes in variables names,
etc.

A rough scan shows other chapters which seem to
have remarkable degrees of similarity.

Very strange...


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