A massive stone tablet embedded in the wall reads:

      ~Congratulations on bringing light
             into the dark-room!~

This is the secret room from which people are magically redirected by elves to various distant and faraway URLs that are mentioned in the Guides. See, many of these URLs are utterly massive and look completely terrible as a footnote in the print version, so these worker elves bundle them up into nice little short redirectors.

Now, normal people don't even find this page since they are quickly redirected out. But since you're sooo curious, I guess I'll just have to manually type out all the links, just for you, since my elves seem to be away at the moment.

Pretend you hear me typing this. clickity click click

• Beej's Guide to Network Programming, The Book!
• The Practice of Programming by Kernighan and Pike
• The Design of the Unix Operating System by Maurice J. Bach
• UNIX Network Programming Vol I by W. Richard Stevens
• UNIX Network Programming Vol II by W. Richard Stevens
• Internetworking with TCP/IP Vol 1 by Douglas E. Comer
• TCP/IP Illustrated Vol 1 by W. Richard Stevens
• TCP/IP Illustrated Vol 2 by W. Richard Stevens
• TCP/IP Illustrated Vol 3 by W. Richard Stevens
• TCP/IP Illustrated 3-Volume Set by W. Richard Stevens
• TCP/IP Network Administration by Craig Hunt
• Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment by W. Richard Stevens
• shutdown() man page
• Forget all that! Take me back to the Guides!

Ah, good! The elves are back, and naturally they have arrived just as I have finished doing all the work. I think we've all learned a valuable lesson here which is, "Beej is a very fast typist."

Oh, and never trust an elf.

—Beej, November 12, 3702 AD