From: rbs{at}snippets.org
To: c_echo{at}yahoogroups.com

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 tomtorfs{at}village.uunet.be wrote:

> Howdy,  stranger!

Stranger than what? Stranger than most? Stranger than fiction? ;-)

I've been absent for a while because I've actually been occupied with
other stuff - including, taa-daa, gainful employment after a long dry
spell.

Which is what led me to my search for David Straker. Among other things,
I'm setting up some sort of rudimentary firmware standards at the company
where I'm working and one of the easiest ways to establish coding
standards is to use references to Straker's book. Unfortunately, it hasn't
been reprinted since Pearson bought out Prentice Hall and is therefore
officially out of print here in the U.S.

Amazon in the UK and Germany list it, but won't sell to U.S. addresses.
This leaves me with a couple of options:

1.  Find a cohort who can buy it in Europe and ship it here for me (the
    short-term solution), or

2.  Help me locate Straker and gain the rights to do my own book-on-demand
    publishing of it (the long-term solution).

Actually, I kinda like the idea of a SNIPPETS Press publication. If I
could pull it off with Straker's book, there are lots of other useful C
books which are also out of print as the rest of the world has flocked to
C++, Java and other languages du jour. We hardcore embedded systems guys
are once again left feeling like red-headed stepchildren...

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