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From: "Aaron Gray" <ang.use...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Understanding and Using COFF (Nutshell Handbooks)
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:51:09 +0100
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"Doug McIntyre" <mer...@geeks.org> wrote in message 
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> "Aaron Gray" <ang.use...@gmail.com> writes:
>>Does any one have this book ?
>
> Yes.
>
>>Is it dated 1988 (Accoring to Amazon) or is it newer ?
>
> That sounds right. Digging it out, yes thats the date on it.
>
>>Is it worth getting ?
>
> The book is written with the main emphasis on COFF in Unix systems.
>
> Not very current, Unix using COFF is pretty old school.
>
> I found it useful at the time. At the time, there was virtually
> nothing for docs out there, there probably is more out now.
> If you are doing an OS that looks vaguely like Unix and doing
> COFF, it could be useful. If you are trying to do something
> pretty foreign to Unix, it may not be too useful to you.

Thanks Doug.

Aaron