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From: dleigh@hplabsz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X for Morons (or, Anybody Got a Tutorial)?
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Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 19:52:52 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 15 19:52:52 1987
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Summary: I have some with me . . .


> > >>   there a real world analogue of "X for Morons - How Even YOU
> > >>   Can Get Started"?
> > >
> > > If there is such a document, please tell me, too.
> >
> > This is of general interest. I hope the answer will be posted and
> > not merely mailed to Bob and Niall.
> 
> I'll testify to this. Since I posted my article, I have received a
> couple of letters each day asking for me to forward anything I receive.
> Unfortunately no one has responded saying that they have such a document.
> My guess is that one doesn't exist. Let's face it. Up until now only
> hackers have been using X. Hackers don't write tutorials, although I would
> be very happy to be wrong about this.
> 
> This is my challenge: Prove me wrong. Show me a tutorial for X.
> 
> 		---Bob Amstadt

I'll try, although I don't know if this is what you want.  I have,
sitting on my desk next to my monitor, two (2) manuals from
Hewlett-Packard entitled "Programming With the X Window System" and
"Getting Started With the X Window System".  Their part numbers are
82320-90001 and 82320-90002 respectively.  The "Getting Started"
manual is more of a user guide than a programming guide, but it is
still useful.  The programming guide contains several Hello World
programs that get more and more complicated as more functionality is
added.

I don't know if that's what you want, but it's all I got.  It's not
for the complete moron, but then programming never is.

Darren Leigh
dleigh@hplabs.hp.com