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From: petrilli@geech.ai.mit.edu (Chris Petrilli)
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Subject: Re: C Programming Books (how about machine readable references.)
Summary: GNU C Manual
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Date: 27 Feb 91 15:35:00 GMT
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>> I am looking for some recomendations on C programming for the NeXT.
>> I want to make sure that any book I get will cover the C compiler
>> that the NeXT uses.
>
>To up the ante, anyone know of a good C reference manual in machine readable
>format?  Several of the NeXT users here have been yearning for a C reference
>manual that could be fed to the Digital Librarian.

I am currently working on the GNU C Reference Manual, and it should be
available pretty soon.  I am hoping to have it finished within 3 months.

The manual is being written in TeXinfo format (as all FSF work is), so
it would have to be converted to RTF or TROFF format.  Going to
TROFF is not that hard, as there is already a texi2roff program available,
but it is a little simplistic in comparison to the results of TeX.  The
other option is creating a program that can understand the Info format that
is generated by TeXinfo.  It is a full "hypertext" like system, that
is integrated into a bookmaking macro set... if people are interested
in it, send me some e-mail and I will e-mail back a copy of the manual.


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