Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ecsvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxb!mhuxn!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary From: dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Buying Pournelle Book Message-ID: <690@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 14:08:12 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.690 Posted: Mon Feb 11 14:08:12 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 13-Feb-85 03:18:04 EST References: <801@sjuvax.UUCP>, <1745@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Organization: Duke U Comp Ctr Lines: 16 <> > Conclusion: if Pournelle is complaining that computer stores don't stock > his book, he may be right. But it was offered for sale right next to the > crossword puzzles [in a Safeway grocery]. --Lee Gold I once saw Lucifer's Hammer (by Niven & Pournelle) in a grocery store here. It was on a rack of religious books... (And that same grocery, a Kroger, has some fiend working there who keeps turning off the K and the R in the sign, leaving OGER. I'm not sure if the chap in question hates his employer or the authors of The C Programming Language... :-} -- D Gary Grady Duke U Comp Center, Durham, NC 27706 (919) 684-3695 USENET: {seismo,decvax,ihnp4,akgua,etc.}!mcnc!ecsvax!dgary