Windows 98 in a Nutshell Review

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Book:		Windows 98 in a Nutshell
Subject:		Windows 98 in a Nutshell Review
Date:		2000-09-12 06:06:38
From:		Pete Nelson

Rating: When I first looked through the contents of this book, I thought to myself 'I already know most of this'. But reading through the chapters, I found all kinds of tricks and information that you'll never find from Microsoft! From one-click shortcuts to open a specific property sheet in a Control Panel dialog, to writing windows scripts to automate tasks, to tuning the command prompt environment, it's all here. Here's just one more O'Reilly book I'll have dog-eared within a month! A great resource! One omission from the book I'd like to see in the next printing is the 'subst' command. It's mentioned several times in the book, but there's no explaination. I tried 'subst /?' and found an incredibly useful command that I've been looking for! Thanks for mentioning it in the book (I wouldn't have found it otherwise), but I hope a new printing (or 'WinME in a Nutshell') contains a description of this command.