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From: tim@ora.ora.com (Tim O'Reilly)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help - X toolkit manuals, &c
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Date: 23 Feb 90 15:41:14 GMT
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> In article <4'90=&@rpi.edu>, bretth@pawl.rpi.edu (Brett M Hogden) writes:
> >   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.  

Our books on the X Toolkit are now available.  Like our Xlib
books, it is a two volume set, with a programming manual and
reference manual.  They can be found
in most technical bookstores, or by calling our number below.
There is also a book from Prentice Hall, by Doug Young.

> 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...)

The reason we're no longer selling the sample diskette is that
the programs are available both from uunet, and in the X11
contrib distribution (both R2 and R3).  Instructions on getting
the programs from uunet are in the preface to the book.  I don't
recall exactly where they are in the contrib tree, but they
shouldn't be too hard to find.

Our Xt book sample programs are also in the contrib tree and at
uunet.
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