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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: There is a place for you in the computer industry...
Message-ID: <40117UH2@PSUVM>
Date: 22 Apr 88 17:50:22 GMT
Organization: Penn Sate Erie--School of Business
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I know I've seen this discussion a million times, but I've always been too
busy to pay attention.  Next month, tho...

I just got Lattice C 4.1.  Read the manual last night and was suitably
impressed ;-)  I was very surprised by how *little* info there was about
the Amiga (oh yeah, the computer and operating system isn't Un*x.).

I will probably NOT buy the $100 A-W manual set, because I cannot justify
that expense right now.  I have Mortimer Vol. 1, The AmigaDos manual, ed.1,
read this stuff here, have an odd assortment of Fish Disks and other pieces
of Misc. source code examples.

So, what is the minimal starter set for Un*x C programmers moving on to
the Amiga??  While we are at it, what books would be good for novice
programmers who perhaps are fuzzy on concepts like 'message passing',
'pointers', 'windowing systems', and so on?

Thanks in advance.

PS  While I can see Lattice saying "An Amiga developer will have all those
other manuals, autodocs, and so on, so why should we duplicate it?"
I think they have gone a little too far.  I mean, the manual doesn't even
have a man page for any of the AmigaDos system calls like Open(),
Close(), and so on.  (Or are those in exec?)

The manual describes malloc(), which is well described in at least
10 other places on my bookshelf, but not AllocMem(), which is not
well described any place else on my bookshelf.

Lattice--You ought to include another volume, I think.