Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!cwns1!chet From: chet@cwns1.CWRU.EDU (Chet Ramey) Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc Subject: Re: blits (was Open Look versus Motif, and it's effect on NeWS vs. X.) Message-ID: <1990Feb23.175424.27593@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> Date: 23 Feb 90 17:54:24 GMT References: <1990Feb17.222156.21791@Solbourne.COM> <90Feb20.084318est.1445@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> Reply-To: chet@po.CWRU.Edu Organization: Case Western Reserve Univ. Cleveland, Ohio, (USA) Lines: 33 Mark Moraes writes about the Blit: >The programmer's manual qualifies as the smallest window system >programming manual around -- at 12 pages, it is well under the ~45 page >MGR manual and the ~60 page X10 manual. I don't know of it in >published form anywhere, alas. > >%A Rob Pike >%T The Blit Programmer's Manual (TTY Edition) >%J Eighth Edition Unix source, /usr/blit/doc/manual >%P 1-12 It is available, as a tech report from Bell Labs. I have a copy, and go back and re-read it occasionally when I get too frustrated with the volumes of X11 documentation. Write to: Comp. Sci Tech. Reports AT&T Bell Laboratories Room 2C-579 600 Mountain Ave. Murray Hill, NJ 07974 Ask for CSTR #121. It's free. Chet -- Chet Ramey "Can't you pay a grad student to Network Services Group read the manual for you?" Case Western Reserve University -- Bill Wisner, chet@ins.CWRU.Edu to Peter Honeyman