Re: Free Ada Books

[Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>]

I take it Ian Kerr was supposed to be following up to
Michael Meng's <myan518@sina.com> post.

Another way of sending the money would be by an International
Banker's Draft or an International Money Order etc. Ask your
local bank or other financial institution (I do not know if Chinese
post offices deal with money but some European ones do) for
which way they would recommend you to pay (there may be other
ways aside from Ian's suggestions and my one). I doubt that
payment on delivery such as Cash On Delivery would be feasible.

Further to Ian's statements of International Reply Coupons (IRCs),
I thought that the only sort available are for giving the minimum
Worldwide airmail postage for an ordinary letter. So for example
this might be U.S.$1.28 but the book may need $30 of postage to
the U.S.A.. So that would be expensive (to get a single IRC
might cost about $1.60 in China -- but then international transfers
would probably have excessive surcharges anyway).

Not exactly the same, but if you want to be scared about the
international service of the U.S. postal system, see
"Buying and trading [bulk quantities of archaic computer
hardware and especially software] with people in the US"
written by a Briton on
HTTP://WWW.CCNUK.co.UK/usauk.html

I also might not mind having a cheap copy of
'Ada 95: Problem Solving and Program Design (2nd
Edition)' but transcontinental postage may make it just
plain dearer than buying it from a shop. Maybe not.
HTTP://WWW.ComputerBooksOnline.com/ links
to http://ircalc.USPS.gov/ of the United States Postal Service
for international rates (you can choose package; country;
and weight).