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Re: Problems reporting perl bugs

From:
Philip Newton
Date:
March 31, 2000 21:46
Subject:
Re: Problems reporting perl bugs
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.4.04.10004010042570.21201-100000@ficus.frogspace.net
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>




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