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The author studies the variations in the non-Archimedean case of the classical results on linear isometries. The classical Banach-Stone theorem that every linear surjective isometry between real or complex spaces of continuous functions is a weighted composition map is no longer true in the non-Archimedean case. In the non-Archimedean case the Banach space \(C(X)\) and \(C(Y)\) of non-Archimedean valued continuous functions on the compact zero-dimensional spaces \(X\) and \(Y\) respectively are linearly isometric if and only if \(W(X)= W(Y)\), where \(W(X)\) denotes the minimal cardinality of a base of \(X\). The author gives a necessary and sufficient condition for an isometry from \(C(X)\) to \(C(Y)\) to be a weighted composition map and also proves that on any non-trivial locally compact zero-dimensional Hausdorff space there exists a linear surjective isometry from the space \(C_\infty(X)\) of continuous functions on \(X\) vanishing at \(\infty\) to \(C_\infty(X)\) which is not a weighted composition map. A number of results published by the author in earlier papers are quoted without proof. The last section contains some results on multiplicative isometries and Shilov boundaries. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0869.00037].