Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 08:04:30 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT crl DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: C reference books
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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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