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From: tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Books on using Mac Toolbox and OS from Lightspeed C
Message-ID: <730031@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 22 May 88 15:48:47 GMT
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Organization: HP Design Tech Center - Santa Clara, CA
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>Can anyone recommend a book that would help me to use the ToolBox and OS
>routines from C?  

I would highly recommend "Using the Macintosh Toolbox with C", by Jim
Takatsuka, Fred Huxham, and David Burnard, (SYBEX, c. 1986). It is the
best book I have seen, by far.  Unfortunately  it seems to be out of
print.  Also, the C the book was written using Consulair Mac C, which
differs slightly from Lightspeed C.  I have translated most of the 
example programs though, so if you have trouble I could help you out.


>Is "Inside Macintosh" an indispensible book or can a
I think so.

>What is covered in "Inside Macintosh"?

This is the official documentation of the 700+ subroutines in ROM that
your programs call.

>Lastly, on a totally irrelevant point, what does "MPW" stand for?  I have
Macintosh Programmer's Workshop.  It is Apple's official Mac software 
development system.

-Ted