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From: andrew@alice.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Lyons (NOT king of beasts) book
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Date: Fri, 17-Apr-87 01:11:22 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 17 01:11:22 1987
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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Keywords: uucp AT&T Lions Lyons
Summary: clarification of Lions' books.



At the risk of being boring, I want to clarify the facts about the Lions text.
As has been stated, the originals were two cheaply bound volumes with
red and orange covers sold by John himself at UNSW. His Unix course
was taught using these books; they were even available for students
during most tests. After the attraction of selling the books wore off
(2 months), John tried to persuade Bell Labs to do it for him. After
some years they agreed although for organisational reasons, it was Western
Electric who acquired the rights from John. The books are readily available
last I knew from the MH Computing [Information??] Library at Bell Labs
at 600 Mountain Ave, Murray Hill, NJ, 07974.

	I like the Lions text better than Bach's because it is exactly the truth.
I learnt Unix using the Lions text and taught Unix as a tutor for Lions.
I may be biased but what does it matter given than Elz has called me an animal?
The point is that Elz is a git from Melbourne who runs BSD4.?. So get
the fluff out of your nose.