djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) (04/13/90)
Archive-name: jargon/12-Apr-90 Original-posting-by: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) Original-subject: Re: Snarf Archive-site: prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38] Archive-directory: pub/gnu Archive-files: jargon.text.Z Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) On 12 Apr 90 01:35:27 GMT, mrc@Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU (Mark Crispin) said: > In article <1089@front.se> per@front.se (Per Lindberg) writes: >>rkeley.edu> >>"Snarf" is indeed one of the words found in the delightful book "the >>Hackers Dictionary", a rehash of the file HACKER.JARGON wich have been >>circulated around the nets since Time Began. It's full of folklore, >>highly recommended. >> >>(Is it still around here somewhere? Maybe co-author Mark Crispin is >>still with us on this channel and could give us a pointer? Or perhaps >>he prefers that we go out and buy the book? :-) > The US edition of "The Hacker's Dictionary" by Steele, Woods, Finkel, > Crispin, Stallman, and Goodfellow, is ISBN 0-06-091082-8, published by > Harper & Row. It has been out of print for several years. There is > an effort underway to develop a revised edition and have MIT Press > publish it (and hopefully do better in marketing it!). I have just put a copy of the abovementioned file, from which the book was derived, on prep.ai.mit.edu as pub/gnu/jargon.text.Z. According to Don Woods, this version of the file, which dates from 1982, is still the current one. -- David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu> <djm@ai.mit.edu>