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From: lvirden@pro-tcc.UUCP (Larry Virden)
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Subject: What doc do I need
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Date: 14 Oct 89 10:42:18 GMT
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Okay.  I have Orca/M gs and Orca/C.   I have the
hardware,firmware, programmer's guide, toolbox, and tech intro books as
printed by A.W.  What do I want next?  My plans are to start with Orca/C
manual.  What else should I get to read?  Is there one or more other reference
books that I will need to program on the GS?  I assume that APDA has some
updates to the books since the AW stuff is all 3-5 yrs old.  Which ones do I
want (orca/c doesnt have 5.0 specific support yet)?  Which 3rd party books do
a good intro of writing GS based window programs?  

Along similar lines, has anyone made an effort to write something like XVT
which is a virtual toolkit allowing one to write window programs which are not
specific to a particular machine?  What I mean is has anyone written something
like that for the GS?  This way I could write code that would run on either my
GS, my friend's mac or my X machines at work!

Finally, are folks out there porting various Unix routines and utilities to
the GS?  If you are willing, I am willing to help to.  I hate to think of 2
dozen ports of tar, compress, sort, etc. all to the GS when we could have
instead 2 dozen DIFFERENT utilities.  A good make, a lint, a good shell (like
bash, ksh, or something), c++, awk, etc. would all be great to have.
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