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From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Strang book on applied maths..?
Date: 3 Sep 1992 22:59:34 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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Recently I came across mention of Strang's book on applied maths.
I liked his linear algebra book very much.
Is this book good?  At what level is it pitched?

Thanks,

        -ans.

-- 
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@usc.edu
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: jerry@ora.com (Jerry Peek)
Subject: Second edition of "MH & xmh: E-mail for Users & Programmers"
Organization: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 17:26:32 GMT

          MH & xmh: E-MAIL FOR USERS & PROGRAMMERS, second edition
                             By Jerry Peek
                       O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.

o 728 pages
o ISBN 1-56592-027-9
o $29.95 
o now available; available overseas in October

Learning how to customize your e-mail environment can save you time and
make communicating more enjoyable.  "MH & xmh: E-Mail for Users &
Programmers" explains how to use, customize and program with the MH
electronic mail commands, available on virtually any UNIX system.
The handbook also covers xmh, an X Window System client that runs
MH programs.

Don't be intimidated by the size of the book:  MH and xmh are easy
to learn and use.  You can learn to use MH by reading only the 14 pages
in Chapter 4.  Chapter 14 covers xmh in 19 pages (about 7 of those
are Figures).  All the rest of the book is there to help you do things
that you never thought you could do with an e-mail system.  This
handbook is packed with explanations and useful examples of MH and
xmh features, some of which the standard documentation only hints at.

The second edition has been updated for MH 6.7.2 and X Release 5.
We've added a chapter on the powerful mhook features for processing
incoming mail automatically.  New sections explain under-appreciated
small commands and features; new examples show how to use MH to handle
common situations.

Contents include:
 - Introduction to MH and xmh
 - Complete descriptions of standard MH and xmh
 - Examples and tutorials for customizing the mail systems
 - Detailed shell programming tutorial using MH in examples
 - Quick reference charts and manual pages for MH and xmh
 - How to get free copies of all programs and files


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Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair)
Subject: book on graphic, especially gif?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 22:25:15 GMT

   I would appreciate recommendations on computer graphics, especially
something that explains gif in detail.
From: ramakris@csgrad.cs.vt.edu (S.Ramakrishnan)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: networking text
Date: 25 Aug 92 19:02:13 GMT
Organization: VPI&SU Computer Science Department, Blacksburg, VA

In article <1992Aug25.092358@wsl.dec.com> gnn@wsl.dec.com (George Neville-Neil) writes:

  >For practical information on setting up a network and administering
  >it under UNIX I like:
  >
  >Unix System Administration Handbook
  >By Nemeth, Snyder, and Seebass
  >Prentice Hall c) 1989
  >ISBN 0-13-933441-6
  >
  >My copy cost me $38.
  >
  >George


I had almost decided to buy Craig Hunt's book when I saw this post.
Can you please post the contents table of your book or compare your book with the 
following book, a short review of which was posted a couple of days ago in 
this group:


    [ Excerpts from <BtCzM6.J3o@ora.com> of Karen Lewis (karen@ora.com) ]

                     TCP/IP NETWORK ADMINISTRATION
                             By Craig Hunt
                       O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
    >o 502 pages
    >o ISBN 0-937175-82-X
    >o $29.95

    >Contents include:
     >- overview of TCP/IP
     >- delivering the data
     >- name service concepts
     >- getting started
     >- basic configuration
     >- configuring the interface
     >- configuring routing
     >- configuring DNS name service
     >- network applications
     >- sendmail
     >- troubleshooting TCP/IP
     >- network security
     >- other sources of information
     >- appendixes include: network contacts, forms, a gated reference,
     >  named reference
    >
    >Covers BSD and System V TCP/IP implementations.



Thanx !

---
S Ramakrishnan, CS Dept, McBryde Hall, VaTech
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Subject: Re: Dover publications question
Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 05:15:28 GMT

Ajay Shah writes
> Aren't Dover books too good to be true?

I think so.

> They are well-produced republications of classics which may
> often have been out of print otherwise, and they are cheap.

It amazes me how cheap they are.  I haven't found any other publisher like  
them for fonts.  It's amazing.
--
-- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
-- no NeXTmail please
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: Eric B Karabin <ekarabin@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Turbo Pascal Books for SALE.
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 02:09:47 GMT
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]


I have 3 Turbo Pascal Books for SALE.

						Your Price       List Price
	Turbo Pascal 5.5 DiskTutor              $25.00           $39.95
	Werner Feibel
	1990
	* Excellent Condition *
	700 pages
	Includes Borland's 3 Disk Streamlined Version
	of the Turbo Pascal Compiler.


	Turbo Pascal 5.5                        $15.00           $26.95
	The Complete Reference
	Stephen K. O'Brien
	* Excellent Condition *
	917 pages
	
	
	Advanced Turbo Pascal                   $10.00       Not Shown on book
	Programming and Techniques
	Herbert Schildt
	* Very Good Condition *
	276 pages


	I will pay shipping for the first 2 in the list, not the 3rd one.
        (Only in the USA)


	If you take all 3 books, then of course I will pay the shipping...
	These books complement each other wonderfully.



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Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)
Subject: Re: book club
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 03:58:17 GMT

> As another poster mentioned, the real benefit of buying books through
> the [Library of Science book club] is the discount credits.  For every
> 4 "bonus credits", you get a bonus certificate which gets you the book
> at 60% off the publisher's price.

Actually, they quietly chopped the discount to 55% a while ago.  I noticed
when I decided to use a bonus certificate on a book sufficiently expensive
that the difference was several dollars.  However, I still had an *old*
bonus certificate that said it was worth 60%, and they gave me that rate.

I agree that this is a nice benefit.  The other thing I like is simply that
I get to hear about all these good science books -- I might see some of
them in bookstores anyway, but certainly not all.

There are also a few things that I dislike.  They do occasionally select
a book that I consider to be trash, but this isn't frequent.  They *regularly*
select books that are nothing to do with science, but are about improving
one's time management, public speaking, or other such qualities; this is
not why I joined a *science* book club.  The "new selections" brochure is
careful to categorize books as "for all readers", "graduate text", and so
on, but these classifications are not carried through into the "recent
selections" catalog.  And finally, there is the negative-option ordering
scheme where you have to mail in a postcard 16 times a year -- though I
was switched to positive-option some time back, so this is also available.

On balance, I say it's worth joining if you like buying science books.
-- 
Mark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto	"Information!  We want information!"
utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com				-- The Prisoner

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From: burris@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (John Burris)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Testing
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:46:38 GMT
Reply-To: burris@ennex1.eng.utsa.edu (John Burris)
Organization: Univ of Texas at San Antonio

Are there any books out there on electronics testing and/or design for  
testablilty?
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: bwhite@cobra.camb.inmet.com (Bill White)
Subject: Opinions on Parallelism Books requested
Organization: Intermetrics Inc, Cambridge MA
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:02:02 GMT

I am thinking of reading some books on parallel algorithms.  I got the
Morgan Kaufman flier a couple days ago, and I was wondering if anybody
has any opinion on some of their new offerings.  The one I am most
interested in will not be published until November, but perhaps someone 
has seen a pre-production copy and can give me a reference.  The three
books listed in the recent Morgan-Kaufman catalog in order of my
interest are:

J. H. Reif (Ed.) Synthesis of Parallel Algorithms.
D. Moldovan, Parallel Processing from Problems to Systems.
G.C. Fox, R.D. Williams, P.C. Messina, Parallel Computing Works!
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: karen@ora.com (Karen Lewis)
Subject: O'Reilly Xlib Programming Manual updated for R5
Organization: O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:13:38 GMT

    Volume 1, Xlib Programming Manual, for X11 Release 4 and Release 5
                             By Adrian Nye
                  824 pages, ISBN 1-56592-002-3, $34.95
              (Now available. Available overseas in October.)


Newly updated to cover X11 Release 5, Volume 1, Xlib Programming Manual
is a complete guide to programming to the X library (Xlib), the lowest
level of programming interface to X.  New features include introductions
to internationalization, device-independent color, font service, and
scalable fonts.

Includes chapters on:
 - X Window System concepts
 - a simple client application
 - window attributes
 - the graphics context
 - graphics in practice
 - color
 - events
 - interclient communication
 - the Resource Manager
 - a complete client application
 - window management
 - other programming techniques

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From: gohel@eggo.csee.usf.edu (Himanshu Gohel)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Reccommendations wanted!
Keywords: anyone read these books?
Date: 23 Aug 92 14:31:53 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: University of South Florida, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Hi,

This is my first post on this group.  I hope someone can tell me how these
books are before I buy them:

1. Connections - The geometric bridge between art and science, by
   Jay Kapraff

2. Beyond Numeracy - Ruminations of a numbers man, by John Allen Paulos

I'm looking for reviews, with information such as contents, whether the
coverage is superficial or deep, and your opinions of it.  I'm planning
to get them from a book club, and have had some disappointments in the
past.

Thanks,

Himanshu
From: gnn@wsl.dec.com (George Neville-Neil)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: Re: Reccommendations wanted!
Keywords: anyone read these books?
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:28:21 GMT
Reply-To: gnn@wsl.dec.com (George Neville-Neil)
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab

In article <1992Aug23.143153.3662@ariel.ec.usf.edu>, gohel@eggo.csee.usf.edu (Himanshu Gohel) writes:
|> Hi,
|> 
|> This is my first post on this group.  I hope someone can tell me how these
|> books are before I buy them:
|> 
|> 2. Beyond Numeracy - Ruminations of a numbers man, by John Allen Paulos
|> 

This book is a great read, I liked it a lot.  It's a lot of fun,
and I'm generally not a big math freak.  It is not an in depth book
about mathematics.  It is a lot of short essays, most of which would
make sense to laymen, about bits of mathematics.  I.e. integrals,
small bits of geomety etc.

I believe the subtitle says a lot about the content of the book.

Sorry I can't post the contents.  The book is at home, and I'm at
work.

Later,
George

-- 
To fathom hell, or soar angelic, take a pinch of psychedelic.
				Dr. Osmond
From: quanbook@world.std.com (Quantum Books)
Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
Subject: New book:  Comer's Internetworking vol. 3
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:33:16 GMT
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

=======================================
Internetworking with TCP/IP, volume 3
Douglas Comer
Cloth 500 pages
ISBN 0134742222 $50.00
========================================
 
Volume III (Client-Server Programming and Applications) is a 
practical guide to designing application software for the internet 
environment.  It is the first book that shows how to design 
applications using the Client-Server paradigm.  It show how to use 
the most important networking protocol, TCP/IP, complementing the 
invaluable information in Volumes I and II.
 
Volume III:
 
Examines algorithms for both the Client and Server components of a 
distributed program.
 
Shows an implementation that illustrates each design, and 
discusses techniques such as application level gateways and 
tunneling.
 
Includes a variety of Client-Server software designs, with 
discussions of the advantages and disadvantages of each, for given 
applications.  Example programs demonstrate how each design works 
in practice.
 
Includes the clearest explanation of remote procedure call (RPC).
 
Reviews several standard application protocols, and uses them to 
illustrate the algorithms and implementation techniques.
 
Emphasizes the design principles that underlie the practical 
implementations.
 
Includes programs available from the publisher and by FTP.
 
Now Available From...
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Newsgroups: misc.books.technical,comp.misc
From: meikle@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Barry Meikle)
Subject: U of Toronto Bookstore computer book catalogue (soon)
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Distribution: can
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:13:33 GMT

This year's (okay, so it started out to be last year's) computer book
catalogue should be back from the printers in the first week of September.
It's a free listing of current computer books stocked in the Bookstore,
and forthcoming books announced by publishers.  The catalogue is extensive
rather than intensive:  title, author, publisher, ISBN, price -- no blurbs
or reviews or useful information.  

As usual, the Bookstore will mail out copies of the catalogue to those who
ask and provide a mailing address.  (That's real, papermail, via Canada Post). 
If you'd like a copy, send a postcard, or a fax, or call.  You _can_ email
me, but, much as I like mail, I'd prefer you didn't:  I pay real, papermoney 
for this account... :-)

If there's interest, I could also make an electronic version available.  At
the moment, I've got the catalogue information in bib format, and could
probably twist it into comma-delimited if necessary.  Emailing copies of
this seems, even with compression, a little antisocial, so I'd prefer an
offer of an ftp site.  (And did I mention that this costs me money?) :-)
-- 
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1-416-978-7242 fax                                meikle@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
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Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
From: ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair)
Subject: Re: Dover publications question
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 19:44:37 GMT

   Dover books are cheap because they reprint stuff that other publishers
don't want (often unjustifiably).  Authors are paid a one-time fee (I think
$1000 is typical) and the books are produced by photo-offset.

   Long may Dover continue!

   PS Not quite as cheap, but definitely worth looking into is Chelsea publish-
ing.  In a few cases, I've seen the same book published by both.  I wonder
if the two companies were ever connected.
From: saz@apollo.HP.COM (Steven A. Zedeck)
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: 401k Rollover Legality Question
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:53:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: apollo.BtyK5v.Bp3
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, MA

Here is text from an article in TAX HOTLINE in this month's issue:

A new law, signed by the President in July, imposes MANDATORY 20%
income tax withholding on lump-sum payots from a company pension
plans.

Effective: For payouts made after December 31, 1992

Under current law an employee who leaves the job or retires can
CHOOSE whether or not to have tax withheld from a lump-sum
distribution. Most choose not to. They take full payment and roll it 
over into an IRA tax-free.

New Law:  An old-style rollover isn't an option unless you want 20%
taken out for taxes.  If the money is paid to you, the company MUST
withhold 20% of the payment in tax.

Avoidance: To avoid having tax withheld, either ...
            . Leave the money in the company plan, or ...
            . Have the money transferred DIRECTLY from the
              company plan to the trustee of a new retirement
              plan (if the new plan allows it) or IRA - a trustee-to
              trustee transfer.

Employers must advise employees of their right to make a trustee-to
trustee transfer and give them a reasonable amount of time to do so.

GOODNEWS: Employees can transfer any percentage of a payout, no matter
how small, into an IRA and take the rest in cash (and pay 20% 
withholding tax on the cash part of the distribution). Under old law,
at least 50% of a payout had to be put into an IRA or other
company plan..

-----------------
My suggestion:
Whatever you do transfer into an IRA, you should put in into
a separate IRA and not mix these funds with a previously setup
IRA. This will give you more flexibility in moving the money around later.
You also shouldn't mix pre-tax dollar IRA money with post-tax dollar IRA.

This should completely clarify things. 
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Newsgroups: misc.invest
From: M18611@MBVM.Mitre.Org (Kathy Wilk)
Subject: Re: **Wang Lab. stock any hope?**
Organization: The MITRE Corporation, Bedford MA 01730
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 18:36:15 GMT

In article <17te02INNevv@early-bird.think.com>
mincy@think.com (Jeffrey Mincy) writes:
>In article <92241.123313WJT101@psuvm.psu.edu> <WJT101@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>>Hello,
>>I am seeking opinions from people on how good an investment in Wang Lab
>> stock would be.
>
>I think that Wang stock would be a lousy investment.  However, It might be a
>reasonable speculation or gamble.  The appropriate word depends on your
>reasons for buying or wanting to buy the stock.
>
 
  I asked this same question the day that Wang filed Chapter 11.  For all of
you who wondered what the responses from the net might be, the above reply
just about sums it up: 'Don't know, could work, might not.'
  AND, had I bought the stock when it hit bottom (say, 1000 shares, at least,
to lessen the bite of the broker's commission), I would have made a profit
speculating over the course of a few days.
 
 
 
                        K. Wilk
                        M18611@MBVM.MITRE.ORG
 
            <--********************************-->
 'Thrusting my nose firmly between his teeth, I threw him to the ground
  on top of me.' - Mark Twain
            <--********************************-->
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Subject: Re: 401k Rollover Legality Question
From: gary@cdthq.UUCP (Gary Heston)
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 92 20:47:03 CDT
Organization: Garys' Home for Obsolete Computers

cep@taligent.com (Christophe Pettus) writes:

> In article <9J65PB4w161w@cdthq.UUCP> gary@cdthq.UUCP (Gary Heston) writes:
> >ben@bailey.UUCP (Ben Bailey) writes:
> >
> >> Better get some real advise from a prof. regarding this.  The 401k rollove
> >> stuff was recently changed, and I'm not sure when it goes/went into
> >> effect.  That advise could be very cheap compared to penalties!
> >
> >The mandatory witholding of distributions goes into effect Jan 1, 1993.
> 
> The WHAT?  Does this mean that 401(k) payouts are automatically withheld,
> and you have to beg and plead to get the money back from the IRS if you
> do the sensible thing and reinvest it in another qualified plan?   Time
> to write to my congresscritter.

After Jan 1, 1993, if you:

        Take a direct payment of your 401(k) upon departing employment,
        your employer is required to withhold 20%, no matter what you
        plan to or actually do with the money. You are *not* relieved
        from the obligation to put the entire amount into a qualifying
        IRA or other 401(k) to avoid penalty on any of it.

        Have your employer roll it directly into an IRA *for* you (as
        if everyone who gets laid off thoughtfully sets up an empty
        IRA for this purpose prior to the layoff), no withholding is
        done.

The usual caveats about mixing 401(k) and existing IRA funds applies,
not to mention the problems with having both deferred and non-deferred
IRAs. 

Gary Heston, at home....
gary@cdthq.uucp
From: McAldon International Inc. <mcaldon@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: misc.invest
Date: 28 Aug 92 22:27 PDT
Subject: Re: German Fund
Nf-ID: #R:BtpL20.B7A@usenet.ucs.indiana.ed:1311904481:cdp:1426500249:000:515
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!mcaldon    Aug 28 22:27:00 1992


|I wondered if anybody know some mutual funds which invested
|exclusively or largely in German stocks.
|[...]

According to a recent (April 1992) chart of American no-load funds
investing internationally, only five of 25 invested more than 10%
of assets in Germany.  Largest was Vanguard Int'l Equity Index with
15%.  Boston Co. International was next with 14.8.  DMcKenzie

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