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Purple Book N. 1. The "System V Interface Definition".
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Purple Book n.
1. The "System V Interface Definition".
The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade
of off-lavender. 2. Syn. Wizard Book. Donald Lewine's
"POSIX Programmer's Guide" (O'Reilly, 1991, ISBN
0-937175-73-0). See also book titles.
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Purple Book: n. 1. The "System V Interface Definition".
The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender....
Green Book n. 1. One of the three standard PostScript reference
PostScript Language Program Design", bylined `Adobe Systems' (Addison-Wesley, 1988...
Green Book: n. 1. One of the three standard {{PostScript}} reference
PostScript Language Program Design", bylined `Adobe Systems' (Addison-Wesley, 1988...
book titles:: There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the dominant color of their covers or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover.
Many of these are described in this lexicon under their own entries....
White Book n. 1. Syn. K&R. 2. Adobe's fourth book in the PostScript series, describing the previously-secret format of Type 1 fo
Adobe Type 1 Font Format, version 1.1", (Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-57044-0)....
White Book: n. 1. Syn. {K&R}. 2. Adobe's fourth book in the PostScript series, describing the previously-secret format of Type 1 fo
Adobe Type 1 Font Format, version 1.1", (Addison-Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-57044-0)....
Red Book n. 1. Informal name for one of the four standard references on PostScript ("PostScript Language Reference Manual", Adobe Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1985
QA76.73.P67P67; ISBN 0-201-10174-2, or the 1990 second edition ISBN 0-201-18127-4)...
Blue Book: n. 1. Informal name for one of the three standard references on the page-layout and graphics-control language {{PostScript}} ("PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook
Adobe Systems, Addison-Wesley 1985, QA76.73.P67P68, ISBN 0-201-10179-3)...
K&R: [Kernighan and Ritchie] n. Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie's book "The C Programming Language", esp.
he classic and influential first edition (Prentice-Hall 1978...