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Take Control of Panther, Volume 1

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This book is really four short books printed together:

First Joe Kissel does Upgrading to Panther.
Then MazAtt Neuburg takes over with Customizing Panther.
Kirk McElhearn discusses Users & Accounts in Panther.
Finally Glenn Fleishman covers Sharing Files in Panther.
Adam and Tonya Engst - They are the publisher and editor in chief of the "Take Control" series of books.

This is not one of those huge thousand page computer books that cost sixty bucks. Instead this is a rather small, 262 page book that is tight and concise and much less expensive. It's intent is to tell you what you need to know to get the most out of panther without having pages full of descriptions that you won't read. Instead nearly every page has insights that help you get the task done quickly and efficiently.

This is high quality power user tips book for Panther. In particular the coverage of File Sharing between Macs, from Mac to PC, and over file sharing networks, is in-depth and excellent. Problem is that it's too short. If this is volume one I think they should have written volume two and put it in this book as well. The book just doesn't stand up to one of O'Reilly's in-depth Mac OSX books like Mac OS X in a Nutshell. That book doesn't cover specific topics, like File Sharing, in as much depth, but it does cover all of OS X and not just a small section like this book.