On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Alex Winbow wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a good, all-around book on general programming
> under Linux and Unix. Topics such as:
> * file i/o * terminals
> * constructing libraries and linking * make
> * curses * pipes
> * shared memory * signals
> * and a smattering of Perl, Xlib, GTk, or other enrichment
You have access to the man pages for all of this and even the GNU info
pages for most of this as well.
> _Linux_Application_Development_
> Michael K. Johnson, Erik W. Troan: Addison-Wesley, May 98
I've read this, and it is basically "Using C on the Unix system" but
with much worse examples. It also has a lot of mistakes on that printing.
Get a Unix book. If you want linux specific items, read the man pages.
Adam
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