About the AuthorDaniel Moran is an award-winning high-schoolteacher who has been teachingThe Once andFuture Kingfor years.Publisher’s AcknowledgmentsEditorialProject Editor: Tere DrenthAcquisitions Editor: Gregory W. TubachGlossary Editors: The editors and staff ofWebster’s New World DictionariesEditorial Administrator: Michelle HackerProductionIndexer: York Production Services, Inc.Proofreader: York Production Services, Inc.IDG Books Indianapolis Production DepartmentCliffsNotes White’sThe Once and Future KingPublished byIDG Books Worldwide, Inc.An International Data Group Company919 E. Hillsdale Blvd.Suite 400Foster City, CA 94404(IDG Books Worldwide Web site)(CliffsNotes Web site)Copyright © 2000 IDG Books Worldwide, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of thisbook, including interior design, cover design, and icons, may be reproduced ortransmitted in any form, by any means (electronic, photocopying, recording, or oth-erwise) without the prior written permission of the publisher.ISBN: 0-7645-8550-9Printed in the United States of America10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 11O/TR/QV/QQ/INDistributed in the United States by IDG Books Worldwide, Inc.Distributed by CDG Books Canada Inc. for Canada; by Transworld Publishers Limited in the United Kingdom; by IDG Norge Books for Nor-way; by IDG Sweden Books for Sweden; by IDG Books Australia Publishing Corporation Pty. Ltd. for Australia and New Zealand; by Tran-sQuest Publishers Pte Ltd. for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and Hong Kong; by Gotop Information Inc. for Taiwan; by ICG Muse,Inc. for Japan; by Intersoft for South Africa; by Eyrolles for France; by International Thomson Publishing for Germany, Austria and Switzer-land; by Distribuidora Cuspide for Argentina; by LR International for Brazil; by Galileo Libros for Chile; by Ediciones ZETA S.C.R. Ltda. forPeru; by WS Computer Publishing Corporation, Inc., for the Philippines; by Contemporanea de Ediciones for Venezuela; by Express Com-puter Distributors for the Caribbean and West Indies; by Micronesia Media Distributor, Inc. for Micronesia; by Chips Computadoras S.A. deC.V. for Mexico; by Editorial Norma de Panama S.A. for Panama; by American Bookshops for Finland.