Hello All , Coould this be an attempt at an internal only document that is not protected correctly ? Just a thought . Twyl , JimL On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Amit Kucheria wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Matti Aarnio wrote: > > > > That appears to be an illegal scanned copy of the material. > > > > Don't be surprised when the publisher demands its removal. > > > > > > Hmm....i am not aware of the 'scanning' technologies...but is it possible > > > to do such a good scan? Except for the diagrams, the book looks really > > > good...including the cross-referencing. > > > I wont be too sad if it is removed...for I am armed with my own copy :) > > Actually i meant I was armed with the printed copy of the book here !! :) > > > I have the whole set of books myself. > > (It describes certain snapshot of BSD IP stack, _NOT_ Linux IP stack.) > > > > "scanning" means using a flat-bed scanner to read each page in as > > pixels, and then to OCR the text in, and manually post-processing > > it to clean and correct OCR mistakes, and finally to add HTML tagging. > > Possibly just hand-typing it all in. Finally adding pictures in > > as GIFs/whatever. > > Hmm....looks like a real bother to accomplish...but i guess its invaluable > once done...albeit illegal! > > > If the pictures had not been obviously skewed/pixleized, it could > > have been published in that form from the source material, in which > > case the issue becomes more difficult to determine -- but it would > > have been at the publisher's site, or publisher approved with clear > > indication of the issue, anyway. > > Thanks for the explanation. > > ciao, > Amit > > -- > The statement below is true. > The statement above is false. > ^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^-^ > Amit Kucheria > EECS Grad. Research Assistant > University of Kansas @ Lawrence > (R)+1-(785)-830 8521 ||| (O)+1-(785)-864 7774 > ____________________________________________________ > > - > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
