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  2. From: michi@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Michael Henning)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
  4. Subject: Re: Camel Book for 5.xxx hardback?
  5. Message-ID: <1992Aug31.234759.22257@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au>
  6. Date: 31 Aug 92 23:47:59 GMT
  7. References: <1992Aug29.162151.1847@meiko.com> <MERLYN.92Aug30092301@romulus.reed.edu>     <i0g1Him!a9@atlantis.psu.edu> <DJM.92Aug30233035@frob.eng.umd.edu>
  8. Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation
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  11. djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) writes:
  12.  
  13. >The Perl book seems to stretch the O'Reilly binding process to its
  14. >limits.  I think it might just be too thick for that binding
  15. >technique.  I've seen several Perl books whose bindings seemed to give
  16. >out after only a year or so, so that the books end up with lots of
  17. >pages falling out.  They're heavily used as references; I think the
  18. >book really needs a better binding, hardcover or otherwise.
  19.  
  20. I'll second that. My copy started losing pages withing two days of opening
  21. it. Maybe O'Reilly need to work on their QA a bit?
  22.  
  23.                                 Michi.
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