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
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.
[
Jargon File]
