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Linux Journal Issue #28/August 1996

Issue Focus: System Administration

Features

Beyond Your First Shell Script
How to write versatile, robust Bourne shell scripts that will run flawlessly under other shells as well.
by Brian Rice

Diff, Patch, and Friends
De-mystifying patches and the tools used to create and apply them.
by Michael K Johnson

Auto-loading Kernel Modules
Make your system leaner by modularizing the kernel.
by Preston F. Crow

The Cold, Thin Edge
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".
by Todd Graham Lewis

Basic fvwm Configuration, Part 2
Customizing the Desktop. Organize and customize those pop-up menu entries.
by John M Fisk

News and Articles

Mobile IP:
Transparent Host Migration on the Internet
by Ben Lancki, Abhijit Dixit, and Vipul Gupta

Graphing with Gnuplot and Xmgr
Two graphing packages available under Linux
by Andy Vaught

Certifying Linux
by Heiko Eissfeldt

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