From: meikle@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Barry Meikle)
Subject: U of Toronto Bookstore computer book catalogue via FTP
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Distribution: can
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 00:02:21 GMT

In article <Btv1An.8rC@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> I wrote:
> 
> If there's interest, I could also make an electronic version [of the
> Bookstore's computer book catalogue] available.  

Thanks to Ken Lalonde, the computer book title list is available
on ftp.cs.toronto.edu as /pub/ecat92.shar.Z.  This is a compressed
shell archive containing the file in bib format, and a readme file 
(a copy of which is appended).  

Here follow prose:  (from the readme for ecat92.bib

ECAT.BIB:  A catalogue of computer books 
01-09-92

The accompanying file lists current and forthcoming computer books.
"Computer books" means anything from PC application-software guides
to computer science texts.  Where possible, publisher's release dates
for forthcoming titles have been included.  (These dates are sometimes
unreliable, and _some_ of the forthcoming titles will turn out to be
vapourtext -- delayed indefinitely, or never actually to be released).
I haven't included prices:  prices in Canada aren't of much use elsewhere
(and net.data has a way of propagating beyond the parochial), and 
I don't want this to be used for commercial purposes anyway.  Any and
all errors in this distribution are mine.

The file follows (more or less) UNIX's bib format:  each record is
separated by a blank line, each field begins with a field key (a
per cent sign, a letter, a space), and ends with a new-line character.

%T Title
%A Author
%I Issuer (ie, publisher)
%G Government number (I couldn't find a field key for ISBN)
%O Other (publisher's projected release date, or other information)

For compatibility with UNIX systems, the file uses UNIX new-line
rather than DOS CR-LF line termination:  you can switch it back easily
enough if you prefer (I use Rahul Dhesi's FLIP).

Bib it, grep it, awk it, edit the heck out of it.  Fix the errors, add
your own (please claim the credit for any emendations).  Use it:  I hate
to see information sitting idle.

Preparation of the catalogue was made enormously easier (possible, in
fact) by the Free Software Foundation's grep, awk, & sed utilities,
ported to MS-DOS by the GNUISH MS-DOS Project.

I _intend_ to do diffs of new titles and deadwood roughly quarterly.  
We'll see how that turns out.

Comments on the format, error-corrections, suggestions, may be mailed to

	meikle@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca

Though I work for the U of T Bookstore, I'd prefer that you check with
your local technical bookstore if you'd like further information on 
any of these titles.  You'll notice that there's no ordering information
in this file.  Shop locally, think globally; or something.
__________________________________________________________________________

Copyright (c) 1992 by the University of Toronto Bookstore,
a division of the University of Toronto Press, a not-for-profit corporation.

ECAT.BIB is a free catalogue of current computer books.  You can
redistribute it and or/modify it for non-commercial use:  please ensure 
that this file accompanies the catalogue, and that the modified files 
carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date 
of any change.  No charge may be made for copies of this catalogue, except 
for the cost of media or reasonable connect-charges.  

This electronic catalogue is distributed in the hope that it will be
useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  
____________________________________________________________________________

-- 
Barry Meikle                                  University of Toronto Bookstore
1-416-978-7925 phone                214 College Street, Toronto, Ont. M5T 3A1
1-416-978-7242 fax                                meikle@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
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