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From: gregory@ritcsh.UUCP (Gregory Conway)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Best book on C?
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Date: 4 Apr 89 01:38:22 GMT
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Well, I'm no C 'guru', but I've been real happy with my book 
'Topics in C Programming' by Stephen Kochan and Pat Wood. (ISBN # 
0-672-46290-7).  It conatins references for libraries, system calls,
curses, make, and debugging.  It is NOT a book designed to teach C, 
it pretty much assumes you know C - just a reference manual of sorts.
Of course, K&R still provides the best book to learn C from.  (It may not
be too 'friendly', but it is complete and definitive.)


-- 
	    Greg Conway @ Computer Science House, RIT, Rochester, NY

	  The prophet lives in the future, the poet lives in the past
	  The lover is but a dreamer,  clutching the moment steadfast