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by Pelam 1253 days ago
I can find Beej.us with DDG, but not daverupert.com. Maybe Beej got the problem resolved somehow.
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He says in the link it’s specifically the C guide, the rest of the website is fine. Though... yeah, DDG queries like “beej c guide strlen” give reasonable results for me, if with an unjustifiably high-ranked position for the mirror at http://docs.hfbk.net/beej.us. Bing ones only include the mirror and the other guides (and a Scribd-hosted PDF copy, of all things, as the first result below a huge navigation card referring to https://beej.us/guides but without the C guide among the links).
Incidentally, what is the "legal status" of Scribd hosting a partial preview of works that they tell you are BY-NC (attribution/non-commercial use only) and telling you to become a member to be able to view the whole thing? Is that not a commercial use?
https://beej.us/guide/bgclr/ is the 2nd result for "beej's c", with first being site's homepage.
Ah, I was just wondering if splitting the book in two volumes (900 pages is more than Amazon can print!) would impact this.

But it still doesn't index the first volume...?

Thanks for the info.