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Subject: Re: A good 'C' Book
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Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 10:11:22 EDT
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Probably one of the best C books ever written that ranks up there with good
ole K & R (Kernighan & Ritchie for all you novices) is

	C: A Reference Manual
	Harbison, Samuel P. &
	Steele, Guy L.

	published by Prentice-Hall 

Be warned, this is not a book for beginners.  It is one of the few books that
discusses peculiarities of different C compilers.  I doubt, however, that 
either MSC or Turbo C is mentioned as this book deals more with UNIX C.

A good beginners book on C is 

	A Book on C 

Sorry I can't remember the authors.  This book is designed to teach C.  It
starts with the basics and moves on up to how to manipulate complex data 
structures in C.  Very good to learn on (K & R is not a book that is well
suited the the beginner.)

	--Jim Boritz
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