Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!oliveb!sun!plaid!chuq
From: chuq@plaid.Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Books on using Mac Toolbox and OS from Lightspeed C
Keywords: lsc lightspeed c toolbox
Message-ID: <54105@sun.uucp>
Date: 21 May 88 18:32:45 GMT
References: <2509@k.cc.purdue.edu>
Sender: news@sun.uucp
Reply-To: chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Organization: Fictional Reality
Lines: 34

>Afer buying LightSpeed C, it didn't take me long to realize that if
>I want to do anything interesting, I need to know more about the
>ToolBox and OS and how it is used from C.

There isn't a book specifically for LightSpeed C (a fact I find amazing,
personally. I actually looked at writing one, but I don't have time).

The best you can do is pick up a Mac book for another C compiler -- in
general, the translation problems are minimal. Two I recommend are Using the
Mac Toolbox with C (Sybex, Takastsuka/Huxahm/Burnard) and C Programming
techniques for the Macintosh (Sams, Mednieks/Schilke).

>Can anyone recommend a book that would help me to use the ToolBox and OS
>routines from C?  Is "Inside Macintosh" an indispensible book or can a
>book from one of the other publishers suffice?  What is covered in 
>"Inside Macintosh"?

For general introductions of the Mac toolbox, the best reference is
Chernickoffs Macintosh Revealed series (Hayden). It can replace Inside Mac
for many programmers, at least until you get into the more complex areas of
the Mac.

>Lastly, on a totally irrelevant point, what does "MPW" stand for?  I have
>seen it used hundreds of times and no one I have talked with knows what
>what it means.

Macintosh Programmers Workshop.



Chuq Von Rospach			chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

	Robert A. Heinlein: 1907-1988. He will never truly die as long as we
                           read his words and speak his name. Rest in Peace.