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Post 44844 by linuxpenguin on Thursday 11th of December 2003 11:14:53 AM
12-11-2003
Quote:
Originally posted by kduffin
O'Reilly is giving away (for free), pdf copies of "Unix Text Processing" by Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly. It was good when published in 1987 and is still worth looking at today. Hayden, the original publisher, took the book out of print, but Dale and Tim retained the copyright and have decided to make it available.
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/
Cheers,
Keith
O'Reilly is giving away (for free), pdf copies of "Unix Text Processing" by Dale Dougherty and Tim O'Reilly. It was good when published in 1987 and is still worth looking at today. Hayden, the original publisher, took the book out of print, but Dale and Tim retained the copyright and have decided to make it available.
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/utp/
Cheers,
Keith
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