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From: 6sigma2@polari.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Perl Reference Manual
Message-ID: <2319@polari.UUCP>
Date: 8 Aug 90 00:48:53 GMT
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In article <5611@muffin.cme.nist.gov> libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) writes:
|In article <2311@polari.UUCP>, 6sigma2@polari (Brian Matthews) writes:
|| 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?
|Don't get me wrong - I have no problem with book selling, but why
|would you expect the authors to make the examples machine-readable
|when you say "I don't need or want the full text of the book".

Sorry, I worded that poorly.  What I meant was, "I don't need or want
the full text of the book *in machine readable format*"  I plan on
purchasing at least one copy of the book for myself, and a couple
people in my office will probably want copies too.  And if I can't
get the examples in machine readable format, I'll probably end up
typing a lot of them in, and so will a lot of other people.  That's
why it would be nice to have the examples posted or available for
ftp or something.

Of course this is all moot, as someone from O'Reilly has already posted
saying the examples will be available on uunet.
-- 
Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP