CBS UNIX(tm) Manuals. (Was: Re: Prentice-Hall exclusive?)

[Wolf N. Paul]

In article <19002 at conexch.UUCP> root at conexch.UUCP (Larry Dighera) writes:
 >Dimitri's comment is only partially true.  The five book set of
 >UNIX(tm) manuals, offered by CBS College Publishing, that I
 >purchased for under $10.00 when joining Macmillan's Library of
 >Computer and Information Sciences Book Club, indicates the
 >following:
 >
 >        Commands and utilities -- v.2.
 >        System calls and library routines -- v.3
 >
 >This is printed on the flyleaf of the volumes (ISBN 0-03-009317-1).
 >
 >So, it appears that, indeed, the Commands and Utilities manuals
 >are pre Release 3.0, but the System Call and Library Routine
 >manuals are System V Release 3.

NOT SO! What you are referring to is in Volume 1, on the page immediately
preceding page 'i'. Here it is, slightly more complete than what you included:

       Contents: v. 1. Commands and utilities -- v. 2.
     System calls and library routines -- v. 3. System
     administration facilities.

And in Volume 5 (Languages & Support Tools) it continues:
     ...  v. 4. Document preparation. -- v. 5. Languages
     and support tools.

These are VOLUME references, not VERSION references. Anyway, in 
AT&T nomenclature, a RELEASE is not referred to as a VERSION; if you
read these as "five point two" etc, then what do you make of the 
"five point one" that precedes the part you quoted, or the "five point five"
in Volume 5? That would be quite a feat on the part of CBS/HRW to describe
System V Release 5 before AT&T has even published Release 4 :-) !
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