Re: A source for MRD's

Gerard Gautier (gauier@cc.nsysu.edu.tw)
Fri, 16 Jun 1995 13:34:09 +0800 (CST)

On Thu, 15 Jun 1995 haines@ISI.edu wrote:

> There is actually a long list of MRD's available on CD, which one can get
> by calling (in the US) 1-800-203-3001 or +44 71 916-8375 (London) and
> requesting the Electronic Book Catalog. Languages include Japanese, German,
> French, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, etc. Also included are parallel book
s on CD, encyclopediae, etc. A veritable gold mine of stuff.
>
> Unfortunately all the stuff is encoded in the Electronic Book format.
> Fortunately, I have spent the last year and a half breaking the code
> and writing programs to dump Electronic Books to disk.

Does it mean there is normally no way to get all this data in 'ASCII'
(I mean "normal" internal computer code, whatever it be) ?

Could you elaborate about this "electronic book format" ? What is it ?

Gerard GAUTIER

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