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From: xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Printed copies of Usenet Software manuals
Keywords: documentation, usenet
Message-ID: <10494@saturn.ADS.COM>
Date: 18 Jan 90 10:37:07 GMT
References: <1990Jan12.223642.1483@virtech.uucp>
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7300
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In article <1990Jan12.223642.1483@virtech.uucp> cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
> ... I will
>be printing a single reference manual that will include all of the following
>items:
>
>Manual 1: The user's/programmer's reference Manual (416 pages)
...
>Manual 2: The user's/programmer's reference guide (596 pages)
...
>So now for the bad news:  
...
>NOTE that this price is for the manual set without any binders and without
>a slipcase.  The slip cases would have added $25.00 to each set. 
>	Continental US:		 5.50	total of: 41.00 (42.06 in Va)
>	Hawaii,Alaska,Canada:	11.00	total of: 46.50

Why in the world did you go to all this trouble?  If these are the BSD
4.3 manuals, the whole set of six, plastic leaf bound, only cost me
$60, delivered, from Berkeley a few years back.  You're charging more
than 2/3rds of this for 1/3rd of the manuals.

--
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