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Re: ISBN numbers

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From: Joseph Herl
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 1990 21:28
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One way to retrieve bibliographic information from ISBN's is through Illinet
Online.  The command is FIND ISBN (or F I) followed by the number.  If you
download the results, you should have all the information you need.

For example:

f i 013937681x

                                          BIBLIOGRAPHIC DISPLAY

     Kernighan, Brian W. 
     The UNIX programming environment / Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike. 
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1984. 
     x, 357 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. (Prentice-Hall software series.) 
     Includes index. 
     ISBN  0139376992 
     ISBN  013937681X (pbk.) 
       1. Electronic digital computers--Programming   2. UNIX (Computer
operating system)  I. Pike, Rob.  II. Title.   III. Series.  
     ocm10-269821  


Joe Herl
School of Music
herl@uiuc.edu
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