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From: Andre_Louis_Marquis@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: The NeWS book ??
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Date: 13 Oct 89 23:21:25 GMT
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If you've been following the development of NeWS and have read the Sun document
ation, I
don't think you'll get much out of the book.  It has a chapter on window syste
history and a chapter on porting NeWS.  That's about all there is that's extra
You'll even recognize many of the screens.

Here is a quote from the preface:
"This book is an introduction to NeWS: the Networked, Extensible,
Window System from Sun Microsystems.  It is oriented towards people
who have a basic knowledge of programming and window systems who
would like to understand more about windowing systems in general and NeWS
in particular.  A significant portion of the book is devoted to an overview
and history of window sytems.  While there is enough detail here to allow
readers to write simple NeWS applications, the NeWS Reference Manual
[SUN87a] should be consulted for a more complete treatment."

Novices and the less experienced should find the book illuminating.  

Andre Marquis