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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
  3. From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
  4. Subject: Re: New Comer - Please Help !
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug28.152243.7973@dcatlas.dot.gov>
  6. Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
  7. References: <1704@grivel.une.edu.au> <1992Aug25.000613.3610@geovision.gvc.com> <1992Aug25.171317.8124@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Aug25.235044.29224@nuchat.sccsi.com> <1992Aug26.075003.6249@iscsvax.uni.edu> <1992Aug27.133908.24033@geovision.gvc.com>
  8. Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 15:22:43 GMT
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  12. If textbooks for single courses are hitting the $50-$75 level *for a _single_
  13. course*, then I cannot see that asking students to drop a few hundred on
  14. a manual set they will use over and over again (possibly beyond graduation)
  15. is the least bit unreasonable.  I strongly suspect that the more motivated
  16. students do so.  I recognize that some may be trying to save money, but see
  17. sentence #1.
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  19. -JTT
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