Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/11/30/19:20:58
On 30 Nov 1996, Weiqi Gao wrote:
[...]
> Well respected academic publishers usually output good quality books, mass
> market/popular press usually output garbage. Unix programming books are
> usually thoughtful, DOS programming books usually confuse beginners with
> things like "far" pointers, "huge" memory models, and the like.
[...]
i would like to mention Stevens' "Advanced Programming with UNIX System V"
and "Network Programming with UNIX." these aren't strictly C reference
books, but I learned A WHOLE LOT from them. as the previous poster said,
no garbage about far pointers and stuff. of course it's UNIX-specific, but
DJGPP does try for UNIXy behavior (POSIX specially).
Stevens' books do have a lot of information on POSIX and non-POSIX
compliance of the libc and system calls (which are lamebrain in MSDOG but
you could call it that... :) this is what's really great about DJGPP --
what you can do under UNIX (except X, named pipes, and TCP/IP among some
<bummer>) you can also do with DJGPP. not to mention lots of nice stuff
that UNIX doesn't really have (Allegro, console graphics..)
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