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john.nospam@nospamassen.nospamdemon.co.uk (John McCabe) wrote in message news:<3d732365.2452266@news.demon.co.uk>...
> On 1 Sep 2002 09:30:56 -0700, stevesusenet@yahoo.com (Steve) wrote:
> 
> >Hi;
> >
> >I was thinking about buying the book
> >
> >"GNU Software for MS-Windows and MS-DOS and Compatible Systems (2nd
> >edition) (book with CD)"
> >
> >from gnu at:
> >http://www.gnu.org/doc/windows.html
> >
> >I was wondering if anyone had this book and would know if it has the
> >latest version of emacs.
> >
> >The link above looks a bit dated.  I was wondering if the software was
> >maintained with the latest, greatest that gnu has.
> 
> Look here:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/doc/windows.html
> 
> Especially the part that says "GNU Emacs 20.5".
> 
> Latest release is 21.2.


Thanks.  I had that link in my original post ( see the quoted material
above ) and I did read the description on the web site.

I guess I needed to be clearer about my question, which should have
been about whether or not the web site for the book was up to date.

Steve