Dan Cross: ... there were a few "journal" type magazines that also specialized in Unix-y things (e.g., ";login:" from USENIX; still published, I believe) ... ====== ;login: is alive and well. So is USENIX. It's no longer the UNIX user's group it started as many decades ago; the focus has broadened to advanced computing and systems research, though the descendants of UNIX are still prominent in those areas. For an old-fashioned programmer/systems hack/systems generalist like me, it's still quite a worthwhile journal and a worthwhile organization. They've even been known to have a talk or two about resurrecting old versions of UNIX. I'm just off to the federation of medium-sized conferences and workshops that has grown out of the former USENIX Annual Technical Conference. I'm looking forward to it. Norman Wilson Toronto ON