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 White Book .
["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 Purple Book .
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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