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- From: seebs@solutions.solon.com (Peter Seebach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c.moderated,comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
- Subject: Perhaps it's time the C community *did* something about bad books.
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 08:41:03 -0600
- Organization: Usenet Fact Police (Undercover)
- Approved: seebs
- Message-ID: <4e07lv$adu@solutions.solon.com>
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- [crosspost justified because of the "Annotated ANSI C Standard". -mod]
-
- We've all spent hours, either struggling through figuring out something
- printed in a inaccurate book, or correcting someone who was having that
- problem.
-
- Our tribulations are nearly at an end - Osborne/McGraw-Hill has a web
- page, and it gives email addresses for several people.
-
- I call your attention to Schildt's "C: The Complete Reference". A
- collection of errors from it was recently posted. The errors (about five,
- I believe) were from a two-page spread, chosen at random.
-
- These errors were from the 2nd edition. At a bookstore yesterday, I
- saw the 3rd edition. Only *one* of them was fixed. It's time we did
- something.
-
- The following addresses may be of interest:
-
- USER GROUPS (Also listed under PUBLIC RELATIONS)
-
- Anne Ellingsen
- Osborne/McGraw-Hill
- 2600 Tenth Street
- Berkeley, CA 94710
- PH: 510-549-6602
- FAX: 510-549-6603
- E-mail: aellings@osborne.mhs.compuserve.com
-
- EDITORIAL
-
- Scott Rogers
- Osborne/McGraw-Hill
- 2600 Tenth Street
- Berkeley, CA 94710
- PH: 510-549-6600
- FAX: 510-549-6603
- E-mail: srogers@osborne.mhs.compuserve.com
-
- MANAGEMENT/STAFF
-
- K. Johnson
- Controller
- kjohnson@osborne.mhs.compuserve.com
-
- S. Rogers
- Executive Editor
- scottr@crl.com
-
- K. Andersen
- Marketing Manager
- kanderse@osborne.mhs.compuserve.com
-
- Osborne/McGraw-Hill
- 2600 Tenth Street
- Berkeley, CA 94710
- PH: 510-549-6600
- FAX: 510-549-6603
-
- ---
-
- I reccommend that everyone who is aware of these problems take the time to
- send one or more of these people email, explaining:
- 1. What the inaccuracy is.
- 2. How basic it is.
- 3. That this is unacceptable in a professional publication.
-
- They aren't going to change until someone lets them know it's a problem.
-
- (Collection of errors available by request.)
-
- -s
- --
- Peter Seebach - seebs@solon.com - Copyright 1995 Peter Seebach.
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