This article originally appeared in the ACCU's Overload journal, and I would like to thank the Overload editorial team for their feedback and assistance.

This revised version has been published with the considerable help of the Quickbook documentation tool, which allows you to generate BoostBook documentation from a WikiWiki style plain text source file. I would also like to thank Nik Stoltzman for his help with the graphics and Dan Tallis for his help with tidying up the source distribution.

The accompanying source code was developed using the GNU emacs integrated development environment (GNU emacs, GNU make, GCC, find, grep, etc), JASSPA Microemacs (for its superb text mode and binary editor), all running on the – sorry Eric, thanks Cygwin – Microsoft Windows operating system.