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From: jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help - X toolkit manuals, &c
Summary: O'Reilly samples?
Message-ID: <114@minya.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 90 02:56:05 GMT
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In article <4'90=&@rpi.edu>, bretth@pawl.rpi.edu (Brett M Hogden) writes:
>   I'm going to be working on a project shortly involving graphic
>   representation of protein gels.  Our research group has decided to
>   attempt to base the programme in X, and we are looking for any good
>   manuals on basic X toolkit routines, as well as any tools that can
>   help to create such a monster.  
> 
>   Also, if there are any programmes of this sort already out there,
>   we're interested in at least seeing how they operate.

Info on this would be worth posting periodically; lots of others would
be interested.  Take myself...

This morning while reading the O'Reilly (Adrian Nye) manual, I noticed
the mention of a diskette of sample programs.  Being interested in not
wasting as much time typing, I thought I might invest a few bucks in
them, so I called their 800 number.  I was a bit disappointed at being
told that the sample diskette is no longer for sale.

Does anyone know if it's still available somewhere?  The book seems to
be quite well written; are the samples also?  If they aren't for sale,
are they perhaps available for emailing?  (Hint, hint...)

As seems to be true of so many commercial products, this Esix system
came with lots of object programs but very little source.  (After all,
why would the typical dumb user want to bother his/her pretty little
head with such things? ;-)

-- 
John Chambers ...!{harvard,ima,mit-eddie}!minya!jc

[Sorry, no clever saying today.]