At 12:17 AM 11-06-98 -0400, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote: But he has! Volumes 1 through 3 have been completely revised and set in TeX. I purchased them a few months ago and did a quick compare with my original set and there are lots of improvements/changes. There is also a commitment in them to complete the set "shortly" and AFAIR volume 4 will be out this year... Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999 La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"

At 03:59 AM 11-06-98 -0400, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote: True enough, but the fact that Knuth has had time to fully revise volumes 1 through 3 is some hope that progress will happen with the other volumes. I've just visited Knuth's home page (http://www-cs-staff.stanford.edu/~knuth/) and extraced the following: "The material will first appear in beta-test form as fascicles of approximately 128 pages each, issued approximately twice per year beginning in 1999. These fascicles will represent my best attempt to write a comprehensive account, but computer science has grown to the point where I cannot hope to be an authority on all the material covered in these books. Therefore I'll need feedback from readers in order to prepare the official volumes later. The publishers have pledged to make the fascicles available in an inexpensive form, essentially at cost. (Of course, the paper and binding will probably be designed to self-destruct in a few years, so that you will have to buy the real book after it is debugged:-) If all goes as planned, Volumes 4A, 4B, and 4C will be ready in the year 2004." So I guess we've got time to save up for Volume 4.... Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999 La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"