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From: glennw@nsc.nsc.com (Glenn Weinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: new 4.3BSD Unix Internals book
Summary: ISBN fields
Keywords: ISBN
Message-ID: <9515@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: 30 Jan 89 19:11:21 GMT
References: <568041@vaxa.uwa.oz> <362@microsoft.UUCP> <2248@unmvax.unm.edu>
Reply-To: glennw@nsc.nsc.com.UUCP (Glenn Weinberg)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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In article <2248@unmvax.unm.edu> mike@turing.cs.unm.edu (Michael I. Bushnell) writes:
>In article <362@microsoft.UUCP> w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb) writes:
>>    ISBN 0-201-06196-1
           ^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^
           |  |    |   |
           |  |    |   +--- Check digit.  X = 10.
           |  |    +------- Number assigned by publisher.
           |  +------------ Publisher.
           +--------------- Language. (I think--this one I'm not sure about)
>
>International Standard Book Number.  Does anyone have any pointers to
>what the encoding is in these?

I don't remember the check algorithm off the top of my head.  Learned all
this junk back in a computer science course a long time ago, believe it
or not.

>
>>  005.4'3--dc19                                       88-22809
>>                                                          CIP
>
>"005.4'3--dc19" is the Dewey number for shelving.
>What is the "88-22809 CIP"?

The Library of Congress catalog number.  Format is just year-sequence
number.  Gives you an idea of how many books the LOC acquires in a year.
Don't know what exactly "CIP" stands for.

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