Is DNS and Bind 4TH Edition on CDROM?
Simon Dick
simond at irrelevant.org
Fri Jul 5 19:54:55 UTC 2002
On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 11:09:55AM -0700, Cricket Liu wrote:
>
> Hi, Martin.
>
> > I have, in my cosession, a new copy of DNS and Bind 4TH
> > Edition. As a computer user who is blind, this is not a total
> > wash-out since I can optically scan the pages and get good
> > results on everything but the important stuff such as syntax
> > examples for various record types, etc.
> >
> > The book uses various differing type styles to illustrate
> > things which is fine for the average reader, but it garbages up
> > the scan to the point of illegibility just when you need clear
> > copy the most.
> >
> > I thought I remember it coming with a CDROM containing a
> > HTML version of the book, but I guess it was wishful thinking.
> >
> > Does this book exist in CDROM form, preferably in HTML
> > format?
>
> The third edition came out as part of "The Networking CD Bookshelf,"
> which Pete cited. The fourth edition hasn't come out on CD-ROM
> and probably won't. The main reason it won't is to protect copyright:
> After the third came out on CD-ROM, it ended up on several web sites.
>
> The fourth edition is available on Safari, O'Reilly's online technical
> book site. If you're interested, see safari.oreilly.com.
>
> I feel bad that there isn't something more useful to you. I think it'd
> be great to offer an electronic copy of the book as an option when
> you buy the print edition (or vice versa), but there are technological
> obstacles to doing that securely.
But if you look here:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/netcd2/
You see that the 4th edition is available on the 2.0 version of the
networking cd bookshelf, I'm getting confused :)
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Simon Dick simond at irrelevant.org
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