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From: 6sigma2@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl Reference Manual
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Date: 5 Aug 90 17:35:36 GMT
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In article <1990Aug5.115930.10276@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
|>Well, in about three months, there'll be an 800-number that you can
|>call to get a 200-page book delivered to your doorstep (written by
|>Larry and me, published by Nutshell).  In the interim, there are some
|One feature that would be nice to go along with your book is a stack of
|disks, or whatever, with a machine-readable copy of the book.  When
|you're looking for info on a particular item there's nothing like
|blasting through the docs on the computer.  And cut-and-paste on the
|examples would be pretty nice too.

This is probably unworkable, considering the number of different machines
perl is available for, and the number of different types of media that
would be needed.

However, has thought been given to making the examples in the book
available over the net?  I don't need or want the full text of the book,
but not having to type in the examples to use them would be very handy.
Randal, Larry, have you talked with the publisher about this?  Any feeling
if it's possible?
-- 
Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP