Oh... I guess I should refine my bitching, considering an O'Reilly editor is reading this! The first thing that crosses my mind on how to provide downloadable code is to attach a shrink wrapped card containing a unique code to the inside back cover of the book. When the code is typed in at O'Reilly's website, the scripts that aren't already available in the sample sections could be downloaded, all at once. The code will then become invalid.

But even if I was only able to get the code by mailing O'Reilly proof of purchase and a dollar or two, I would.

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