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From: don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Finding 2.0 Programming documentation
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Date: 3 Jan 91 04:07:43 GMT
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     No doubt it's been asked before, but where might I be able to find some
documentation on taking advantage of the new 2.0 features?  I never did much
under 1.3 because things like opening windows, etc, looked a bit complex.
From the little bit of source I've looked at of 2.0-specific software (PSX
and ToolManager), it looks as if things have gotten easier (of course, that
may also be due to the fact that I've relearned C since the last time I
tried doing any non-CLI-based intuition programming under 1.3), but 
I can't get too far on only two examples.
	Anyway, I've got a little bit of free time (I hope) coming up, and I
figure now's a good time to start doing some Amiga-secific programming.
So, for those who haven't guessed my question by now, where might I find 
some documentation for 2.0?  I'm using SAS 5.10 (my 5.10A was supposed to
be in the mail several weeks ago, but...).  I have the 1.3 Includes &
Autodocs RKM, several generic C books, and just the above-mentioned source
listings to learn from.
	I know of the existence of the DevCon notes, but apparently you've got
to be a developer and pay extra to get them... too expensive of a proposition
for me at this point.  How soon might I hope to see 2.0 RKMs?  I imagine
it'll be a while, since 2.0 itself isn't set in stone yet.
	It'd probably also be useful for me to find a decent book on Amiga
programming in general, to get some kind of idea what exactly terms like
IDCMP, BPTR, messages, etc. are supposed to mean to me.  My programming 
experience thus far has been mostly generic C and Modula-II; that's apparently
all I'll get from school until I start taking grad-level classes (the 
exception, I hope, being the Op Systems class next semester...)

	One question someone might answer for me which could probably be
very helpful in deciphering code... what exactly is a tag?  It's not
something I've run across before.  What is its function, and how is it stored?

	Any help, suggestions, reasonably documented example code, etc., will
be happily accepted.

	Thanks

	
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