Old O'Reilly X books

Pat Kane pekane52 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 05:32:54 PDT 2010


I'd love to have another copy of
    The X Window System Server
    X Version 11, Release 5
    By Elias Israel and Erik Fortune

and copy of the Maroon X bible (Digital Press?) would be nice too.

The only interesting dead trees that I have to trade is an old
xerox copy of HAKMEM (AI Memo 239)

Pat
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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 5:14 PM, Alan Coopersmith
<alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
> Everyone in the building I work in is busy packing their offices
> to move to a new building this week, and as some of them have been
> here 15 years, there's a lot of old stuff going into recycling piles
> as not worth the effort of moving.
>
> This includes more copies than I imagined of most of the old O'Reilly
> X manuals - X protocol reference, Xlib reference, Xt toolkit, even the
> Xview & Motif manuals.   These are mostly the X11R3/R4 versions of the
> manuals, so would be somewhat out of date for Xlib (missing threads,
> i18n, xkb, etc.), a little out of date for Xt (no idea what changed
> after R4, little has changed since R6) & Motif (none of the OpenMotif
> extensions), and probably completely up to date for Xview (if anyone
> still cares about that).   There's also a couple of copies of the
> Digital Press books (Schiefler & Gettys) which were mostly just the
> official specs nicely formatted & indexed (O'Reilly on the other hand
> expanded the text in theirs), as well as X books from a couple other
> authors.
>
> There are later copies of several of these freely available online [1],
> but these trees are already dead if you need a dead tree version.
>
> Is there anyone out there that has a use for these ancient scrolls?
> I can save them from the recycling bin if so...
>
> [1] http://www.x.org/wiki/ProgrammingDocumentation
>
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>         Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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