Kieran Barry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, David H. Adler wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 01:59:05PM +0000, David Hodgkinson wrote: > > > Struan Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > er, what's wrong with foyles if it's not a silly question? > > > > > > Insane filing system > > > > They (used to, at least) file their Science Fiction (and some other > > sections) by publisher rather than author or even title. Good luck > > finding a book if you don't know the publisher... > > > The computing section is somewhat more sane these days. > > And anyway, computing by publisher is getting a lot better. You just > browse O'Reilly, Addison Wesley and Prentice Hall. Heretic. Manning publish Conway's OO Perl book. -- Dave Hodgkinson, http://www.hodgkinson.org Editor-in-chief, The Highway Star http://www.deep-purple.com Apache, mod_perl, MySQL, Sybase hired gun for, well, hire -----------------------------------------------------------------