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Date:Mon Dec 18 11:46:27 2001 
Subject:Re: Thirty years of frustration (:-/)... 
From:Stephen Isard 
Volume-ID:1011218.01 

Pete Goodeve wrote:
> I'd love to have the Silver Book, but the only copy
> I know of is in that Finchley Library -- somewhere tucked away in their
> storage stacks...  (I think I last checked about 15 years ago.)

The online catalogue of the Edinburgh University library lists five
copies.
(Amazingly, none of them is checked out.) Interlibrary loan?

> [What I would love to do is get it working under BeOS (!)  That's what I
> use on my home system.  x86 BeOS executables are the same ELF format as
> Linux, but of course the libraries are different.  The linking ("Chicken
> and Egg") problem has me foxed at the moment.]

I think the best route would probably be a BeOS cross-compiler on a
Linux machine, but I have no experience with such things myself.

Regards,

Stephen Isard