Wirth's compiler book in *pdf via linux-ETH-oberon?

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So as I wrote on the mailing list,
I can conveniently cutNpaste the bytes [in case they're not text],
from the *pdf. In fact 4 consecutive non ascii bytes, not seen here
are: e2, e3, cf, d3. Hex.Open ^ <linux-path & file> shows it.

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It seems that there are 25 'lines' between each consecutive
"Chapter".

BTW as you would expect the 'photo' of a paper published 30 years ago,
would show all "s" chars to differ, depending on the paper grain etc ?

== Chris Glur.

[Chris Burrows]

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So as I wrote on the mailing list,
I can conveniently cutNpaste the bytes [in case they're not text],
from the *pdf. In fact 4 consecutive non ascii bytes, not seen here
are: e2, e3, cf, d3. Hex.Open ^ <linux-path & file> shows it.

I think we are talking about the same book but you have an inferior scanned
copy.

The title of the book is 'Compiler Construction' by Niklaus Wirth. The good
news is that there is a much better PDF copy publicly available, produced
from text, not scanned images.

You need to download the official Nov 2005 PDF copy from the ETH website.
You'll be pleased to know this is only about 597Kb NOT the 6Mb of the
version that you referred to on the ETH mailing list. The text CAN be
extracted from this PDF copy as it is NOT a set of images.

http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/books.html

The direct link to the PDF file is:

http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/CBEAll.pdf

Regards,

Chris Burrows
CFB Software
http://www.cfbsoftware.com/gpcp