Murphy's law expansion for writers:

When a writer receive his new book from print, he will always open it in the
place with the worst errata.

Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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> Jared,
>
> There will ALWAYS be errata. If you are lucky, you keep it to a
> minimum. I don't know of any author (myself included) who has ever had
> a book published with no mistakes. And I am anal about proofreading and
> correcting errors.
>
> But I *am* saving this email for when my copy comes :)
>
> Rachel
> --- Jared Still <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 11 September 2002 08:38, Paul Baumgartel wrote:
> > > I've just received my copy of _Perl for Oracle DBAs_.  I'm looking
> > > forward to reading, learning, and implementing.  It's nice to have
> > > personal knowledge of an author's competence!  Thanks, Jared, for
> > > writing this.  My only quibble is that there's no author photos:  I
> > had
> > > hoped to put a face to the name!
> > >
> > > Paul Baumgartel
> > >
> >
> > Paul,
> >
> > Sorry about the lack of photo's.  :)
> >
> > There's already some errata.  sigh...
> >
> > It's not on the web site yet, so here's what I've submitted:
> >
> > Jared
> >
> >
> > Errata:
> >
> > Add MainLoop() to step 5 of Example 3-1 on page 70
> >
> > Example 3-2 on Page 71:
> >   change "my oracleTime;'"  to "my $oracleTime;"
> >
> > Example 4-1 on Page 116:
> >
> > It may be necessary to specify the ORACLE_HOME value
> > in your environment.
> >
> > You may need to change add the following line:
> >
> >   $ENV{ORACLE_HOME} = '/u02/app/oracle/product/8.1.7';
> >
> > The actual value needs to be the ORACLE_HOME for your environment.
> >
> > Add this line just above this line:
> >
> >    my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:Oracle:orcl','system','manager',
> >      { RaiseError=>1} );
> >
> >
> > >
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