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The current project is technical and English editing review of the GNU C Library Reference Manual. The manual has been split into 2 separate, stand alone volumes. I would appreciate it if some volunteers would take a moment to give it a holistic look, and see how well the split was made. Does a book feel like it is "missing" something? Does information not flow correctly?
Please go to the following URLs for a copy of the two manuals. It
is available in both original Texinfo type-formatting version (as one
very large text file), and as a PDF version.
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