About The Author

Warren W. Gay is a supervisor at Mackenzie Financial Corporation in Toronto, Canada. There he supervises a small team of UNIX programmers who manage the Mackenzie Investment Management System (IMS). Warren is also the author of Sams Teach Yourself Linux Programming in 24 Hours and Que's Linux Socket Programming by Example.

Programming professionally since 1980, he has used a number of assembler languages and PL/1, Lisp, C, and C++. He has been programming UNIX since 1986 and Linux since 1994. Warren has contributed Linux software packages, such as the ftpbackup program and the rewrite of the popular wavplay program. You can find these and his other Linux packages at sunsite.unc.edu and its mirror FTP sites.

Warren holds an advanced amateur radio license and is occasionally active on 75 meters with radio call sign VE3WWG. On August 3, 1991, he made contact with Musa Manarov, call sign U2MIR, aboard the Soviet MIR space station using a PC and packet radio gear. The contact was made on the 2-meter band.

Warren lives with his wife Jacqueline and his three children, Erin, Laura, and Scott, in St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada.