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From: mikey@eukanuba.wpd.sgi.com (Mike Yang)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: comp.sources.x: Examples from New Xt Book, Part 01/05
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Date: 5 Nov 90 18:42:51 GMT
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In article <85455@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, casey@gauss.llnl.gov (Casey Leedom) writes:
|>   What an unbelievable faux pas.  Would *you* buy a book on programming
|> in X from someone who doesn't know how to use imake?  Or nearly as bad,
|> someone without the courage to help in the standards process by helping
|> promulgate imake as a standard part of any X11 installation?  I sure
|> won't be buying his book ...

As someone who doesn't use imake locally and who is more interested in
Xt-type information from an Xt book, I would certainly by a book
written by Paul Asente, one of the Xt designers, even if he didn't
distribute imake with their example sources to a public newsgroup.

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