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From: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: TeXhax Digest V89 #101
Message-ID: <1239@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 13 Nov 89 10:47:34 GMT
References: <807@shelby.Stanford.EDU> <2663@munnari.oz.au> <1237@kuling.UUCP> <2694@munnari.oz.au>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Bo Thide')
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <2694@munnari.oz.au> ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe) writes:
>> are now introducing 32 bit ones.  NLS with 8 bit support is now an X/Open
>> requirement (see the green X/Open books).
>
>Please correct my ignorance:
>  what are the green X/Open books and how do I see them?


The books are called "X/Open Portability Guide".  The 1987 issue had 4 volumes
(and they all had green covers) and this is what we have in our lab now.
I understand that the latest 1989 issue consists of 6 (or 7?) volumes but
I don't know their colour :-)

Ordering information:

"X/Open Portability Guide", 
1987 issue ISBN numbers 0 444 7017x y, (x,y=volume dependent digits)
Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Inc.
52 Vanderbilt Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10017
USA

or your nearest computer bookstore.


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