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From: root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher)
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Subject: referencing "info"?
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Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 17:53:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 18 17:53:57 1987
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+---- rich@oxtrap.UUCP (K. Richard Magill) writes in <660@oxtrap.UUCP> ----
| I'm writing a short paper and would like to give credit to information
| that I lifted from an info page.  How should I list this?  Is it
| "published"?  Can I reference things I can only find buried in
| binaries?
| 
| rich.
+----

The Modern Language Association (MLA) Style guide states in section 4.8.1:

    An entry for a commercially produced computer program should contain
    the following information:  The writer of the program, if known; the
    title of the program, underlined; the descriptive label "Computer 
    software," neither underlined nor enclosed in quotation marks; the 
    distributor; and the year of publication. Put a period after each item
    except the distributer, which is followed by a comma.  At the end of the
    entry add any other pertinent information - for example, the computer
    for which the program was designed (e.g., Apple, Atari, or VIC);
    the number of kilobytes, or units of memory (e.g., 8KB); the operating
    system (e.g., IBM PC-DOS 2.10, CP/M 2.2); and the form of the program
    (e.g., cartridge, cassette, or disk).  Seperate these items with commas
    and conclude the entry with a period.

	Pattis, Richard E.  _Karel_the_Robot:_A_Gentle
	    Introduction_to_the_Art_of_Programming_.
	    Computer software.  Cybertronics, 1981.

	Starks, Sparky.  _Diskey_.  Computer Software.
	    Adventure, 1982.  Atari 400/800, 32KB, disk.

Taken from:
	Gibaldi, Joseph and Walter S. Achtert.  _MLA Handbook for
	    Writers of Research Papers_.  2nd ed.  New York: The
	    Modern Language Association, 1984.  116-117.
	    ISBN 0-87352-132-3
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