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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
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Subject: Re: Anyone have code from Doug Young's book?
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Date: 13 Jul 89 21:49:44 GMT
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[ Brian V. Smith writes: ]

> Compared to the abysmal documentation provided with the Xt Intrinsics,
> this book is a godsend!

I must have been up too late last night.

My previous message on this topic was intended to go to Doug Young
only.  While the information in it is true, the style used may give the
wrong impression. I
figured that this message would generate this type of flamage, that is why I
only sent it to Doug (or so I thought :-).  I definitely agree that as
a tutorial Doug's book is FAR superior to the Intrinsice Spec, which
was the only documentation previously avaliable on Xt.  Given the speed
with this book
came out it is an admirable effort.   

[ Doug Young writes (in personal mail to me): ]

> You're certainly entitled to post your opinions to xpert. No one else seems
> to restrict their flames! -:) Actually, I wouldn't mind if you reposted
> [the] part of my reply that concerned the title. I have been
> waiting for someone to mention the title, so I could explain it.

[ Me: ]

> > typos in this book is staggering.  For starters how about the front cover.

[ Doug ]

> Tell me about it. First time I knew about this was when I saw the book.  I
> was not pleased. Supposedly someone in Prentice Hall's production
> department has "systems programming" on the brain and screwed it up at the
> last minute. The title is supposed to be:

> The X Window System: Applications and Programming with Xt

> (actually my choice of a title was "XtProgramming", but Prentice Hall
> changed it) Prentice Hall claims they will fix it later. Their PR stuff has
> at least three variations on the title.


[ All opinions in this an the previos message on this topic are mine and
  do not represent the official position of MIT or the X Consortium. ]

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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