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On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Kurt D. Starsinic wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:00:26AM -0500, Philip Newton wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Larry W. Virden wrote: > > > > > 1995, ISBN 0-13-143934-0 (great textbook). > > > > His name appears to be spelled Tanenbaum, with one 'N', so the original is > > fine. However, a search on the book appears to show that the ISBN is > > 0132199084 (pub. date 23-Aug-1994 or September 1994, depending on the > > source). Ah, a search at Prentice-Hall says that its ISBN is 0-13-219908-4 > > and that it has a publication date of August 1994 but a copyright date of > > 1995. So you don't need to correct the spelling of the author's name, but > > you should update the ISBN. > > The ISBN hasn't changed. The dashes are not significant; they are > supposed to make the number more human-readable. Don't they do a good > job? So you're saying that 0-13-143934-0 and 0132199084 / 0-13-219908-4 are the same? I know that the last two are the same, but they're both different from the first one (which was in the POD). Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton <newton@newton.digitalspace.net>