Green Book

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.

6. Green Book CD-ROM.

See also book titles.

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(1996-12-03)