> I bought each edition ... and read it as if I were studying to be a lawyer This made me laugh. I always described it as feeling like a collector/completist,

> I bought each edition ... and read it as if I were studying to be a lawyer This made me laugh. I always described it as feeling like a collector/completist, but lawyer works too. Visitors to my home office (back in the dark ages) would often comment on the growing set of editions of "UNIX System Administration Handbook", lined up side by side on my shelf. Honestly at some point in editions 3 through 6, I was just buying the new ones for the shelf art. RIP Evi Nemeth.