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Posted: Sep. 08 2007,23:01 QUOTE
As requested, for posting of errata for the "The Official Damn Small Linux Book".

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Posted: Sep. 09 2007,03:54 QUOTE
I've just been using the book to build a uci with icons and wrapper (and suceeded thanks to the book). P206, item 4 says:
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mkisofs -R -hide-rr-removed -cache-inodes -pad zile/ \ | create_compressed_fs - 65536 > /tmp/zile.uci

When I tried the format above, I got an error of the form "file not found", but this worked:
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mkisofs -R -hide-rr-removed -cache-inodes -pad zile/ | create_compressed_fs - 65536 > /tmp/zile.uci

Perhaps there's something about the command I don't understand, or perhaps this is due to gnu-utils being loaded?

The same command is repeated on P199, 201 and 207.
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Posted: Sep. 09 2007,04:07 QUOTE
That "\" was introduced during formatting the text. It is to indicate a continuation, i.e., that long command line could not be formatted to fit on a single line.

For example:

$ ls \
> -la

Is the same as ls -la

The backslash is literally meant to break the command at that point.

I agree that the secondary (continuation prompt) ">" should have also been displayed. But then again, it may have just added to the confusion.

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Posted: Sep. 25 2007,04:43 QUOTE
P. 73 "Selecting Files and Directories to Back Up with .filetool .lst

Should be  "Type ls -a /home/dsl to see the .filetool.lst file"   (not ls -l )
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Posted: Oct. 06 2007,20:19 QUOTE
P. 207
 3. # cp -a /opt/zile

needs a destination: (sudo cp -a /opt/zile . )
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