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- From: asherman@laser.fmrco.com (Aaron Sherman)
- Subject: Re: Camel Book for 5.xxx hardback?
- In-Reply-To: todd@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu's message of Thu, 3 Sep 1992 01:46:01 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:21:55 GMT
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- todd@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara) said:
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- sherman@unx.sas.com (Chris Sherman) writes:
-
- >Actually, the Perl book on CD-ROM would be really handy!!! I
- >would be willing to pay bucks for all the 'animal' O'Reilly
- >books on a CD-ROM.
-
- Todd> O'Reilly released a Hypercard version of "UNIX in a Nutshell"
- Todd> about four or five years ago. I used it quite a bit and found it
- Todd> useful and easy to use. I don't have a Mac to use anymore and
- Todd> would sure like to see both "UNIX in a Nutshell" and some form
- Todd> of a Perl reference for the Microsoft Windows environment using
- Todd> the Windows Help engine (or whatever else O'Reilly would prefer
- Todd> to use).
-
- I'd like to see them just release it as PostScript(tm) on a CDROM.
- That way it's machine independant, and I think most people can get at
- a PostScript(tm) previewer, or just print it out (they'd have to write
- up the license such that people were allowed to print it out for their
- own use, of course.
-
-
- -AJS
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