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From: aipdc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul D. Crowley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: help beginner
Message-ID: <10620@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 29 May 91 03:49:58 GMT
References: <1991May28.211835.862@ariel.unm.edu>
Organization: Put your analyst on danger money, baby!
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In article <1991May28.211835.862@ariel.unm.edu> llin@draco.unm.edu (Lynne Lin) writes:
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>I am trying to learn how to program in X and the only book I have is the "X 
>window System: C library and Protocaol refrerence" by Gettys, Scheifler, Newman

Not to put too fine a point on it, you're up shit creek without a paddle
in a barbed wire canoe.  It is as near impossible to learn X given only
this book as makes no difference.  If you can do it, rollerskating up
the Matterhorn will present no challenges to you. 

My advice is to beg, borrow, steal, or as a last resort buy Volume 1 of
the O'Reilly series of books on X programming, called "Xlib Programming
Manual".  Make sure you get the latest version: ie the X11R4 one.  Even
then, X will put up a damn good fight - it really is hard to imagine how
X programming could be harder.

And if you found a way of making X programming harder, you could start
on the trickier problem of making the MIT manual more obscure and harder
to read.
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