By A.P. Lawrence

This site contains information intended to be helpful.

MUCH OF THE MATERIAL AT THIS SITE IS RELATED TO SCO OSR5. OSR5 is Unix, so SOME of what you'll find here is useful if you are running Unixware, Solaris, Linux, Mac OS X or whatever, but if your specific OS is not specifically mentioned, take whatever you read as being POSSIBLY WRONG FOR YOU. If you are in the Mac OS X or Linux or whatever sections, you don't have to worry about OSR5 particularly, but you still needv to be careful. That previous sentence has a good example of why: I left the "needv" typo in to illustrate a point: I and the other people who have put articles here are just human beings. We make mistakes. The mistakes may not be as obvious as that, or might just be errors of understanding.

In general, you need to be very careful when applying any suggestions or ideas gleaned from this or any site. First, there may be typos or even actual errors in what you read. Secondly, software changes all the time: what may have been correct a year ago may be very wrong today.

Therefor, take everything with a grain of salt and do whatever you can do to confirm that whatever you are about to do is appropriate and not dangerous. If you aren't confident that you can do that, please find someone with more knowledge and rely on their judgement.

Program code on this site is particularly dangerous for unsophisticated users, and should never be used unless you fully understand it. Most code published here is intended to be illustrative rather than functional.