In a refreshingly candid note on his official Princeton University webpage for the book, Brian Kernighan himself addressed these complaints and explained the situation. He notes that creating the "Print Replica" version was relatively simple, taking him less than two hours to produce. The alternative—a "proper flowable e-book format" (which we typically refer to as an EPUB)—is a much greater challenge. He describes Amazon's e-book creation software as "awkward, hard to work with, and incomplete," with poor documentation, making it difficult to properly handle the book's code examples. He expressed his hope to eventually produce a proper e-book format, stating, "...this is not meant as an excuse, and I do hope to produce a proper e-book format as I find time to defeat the current software".
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My apartment dissolved. The walls became streams of text. The pipes in my bathroom became the pipes of the operating system: ls | grep home . In a refreshingly candid note on his official
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