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1. publication Informal name for one of the four standard
references on PostScript. The other three official guides
are known as the Blue Book, the Red Book, and the WhiteBook.
["PostScript Language Program Design", Adobe Systems,
Addison-Wesley, 1988 (ISBN 0-201-14396-8)].
2. publication Informal name for one of the three standard
references on SmallTalk. Also associated with blue and red
books.
["Smalltalk-80: Bits of History, Words of Advice", by Glenn
Krasner (Addison-Wesley, 1983; QA76.8.S635S58; ISBN
0-201-11669-3)].
3. publication The "X/Open Compatibility Guide", which
defines an international standard Unix environment that is a
proper superset of POSIX/SVID. It also includes
descriptions of a standard utility toolkit, systems
administrations features, and the like. This grimoire is
taken with particular seriousness in Europe. See PurpleBook.
4. publication The IEEE 1003.1 POSIX Operating Systems
Interface standard has been dubbed "The Ugly Green Book".
5. publication Any of the 1992 standards issued by the
ITU-T's tenth plenary assembly. These include, among other
things, the dreadful X.400 electronic mail standard and
the Group 1 through 4 fax standards.
See also book titles.
(1996-12-03)