Xref: utzoo comp.lang.c:12366 comp.unix.questions:9110 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!serene!rfarris From: rfarris@serene.CTS.COM (Rick Farris) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: Advice Request on the C Users Group Summary: A pretty good magazine Keywords: C, user group, unix Message-ID: <159@serene.CTS.COM> Date: 6 Sep 88 07:42:43 GMT References: <572@ardent.UUCP> <840@viscous> Reply-To: rfarris@serene.cts.com (Rick Farris) Organization: Serenity BBS, Del Mar, Ca. Lines: 46 In article <840@viscous> brianm@sco.COM (Brian Moffet) writes: >In article <572@ardent.UUCP> worley@ardent.UUCP (John Worley) writes: >> >> I recently received a letter from the "C Users Group" (CUG), offering >>wonderful things if I would consent to join them. Before I send away for >>this, I would like any and all opinions on the outfit, especially concerning: > >I am interested in this information also please. I recieved on of these >yesterday (what a subjective term on the net!) and am curious. > I am a member of the C Users Group. The C Users Group used to be a library of Public Domain 'C' software which they sell for ~$8/disk. When the C Journal went under, they picked up their subscriber list and began publishing the "C Users Journal." It's a pretty good rag. It has columns by P.J. Plauger, Rex Jaeshke, David Fiedler, and Kenneth Pugh. It is edited by Robert Ward, who wrote "Debugging C." My only complaints about the magazine have to do with it's production. Their graphic artist is not one, and the magazine is printed on paper so thin that the opposite side often bleeds through. Also, the listings that they print are often unreadable due to the tiny print, and the poor quality of reproduction, to say nothing of the fact that they (see comment on graphic artist) often find the need to print the listings as black on grey, or black on purple, which makes them even harder to read. They provide a mail order source for most every book about C that was ever written. They are very small, and when you call you get *personal* service. They sell the books at list price. I don't really think you'll find much in the PD library that you won't be able to find on a local bbs. I think that much of their library traffic comes from overseas. I guess I'd give them an "A" for effort, and recommend a membership just for the magazine subscription. My flames about the magazine production are, after all, a product of the "mom & pop" sort of outfit that they run, and it makes them a pleasure to deal with in all other areas. _______________________________ Rick Farris | rfarris@serene.UUCP | Voice (619) 259-6793 POB M | !serene!rfarris | BBS 259-7757 Del Mar, CA 92014 |_______________________________| serene.UUCP 259-3704 If carpenters built buildings the way most programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. . .