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Subject: Re: TeXbook for version 3.0 of TeX ? / TENTH printing.
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Date: 17 Nov 90 21:19:34 GMT
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eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:

|> Latest hard cover: ninth printing, soft cover: seventeenth and
|> eighteenth. In fact, in the 18th there is one macro in plain.tex
|> that's not in the 17th.

Wrong.

From the frontispiece of my copy of the hardcover TeXbook:

  This manual describes TeX Version 3.0.  Some of the advanced
  features mentioned here are absent from earlier versions.
  ...
  Tenth printing, revised, June 1990

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