jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) (06/12/90)
In article <23415@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, qt@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Quan Tang) writes: > > I am going to use 'curses', but I have no references except man pages, > I will appreciate it very much if any unix expert send me some information about > it including your experience. O'Reilly & Associates (981 Chestnut Street, Newton, MA 02164) has two very well-written books: "Programming with Curses" by John Strang "Termcap and Terminfo" by John Strang, Tim O'Reilly and Linda Mui You should rush right out and get a copy of both. Put your name all over them right away, because every programmer in the vicinity will try to steal them. They are about two orders of magnitude better than anything else I've seen on the subject. Of course, if someone knows of anything as good or better, I'd like to hear about it. -- Uucp: ...!{harvard.edu,ima.com,mit-eddie.edu}!minya!jc (John Chambers) Home: 1-617-484-6393 Work: 1-508-952-3274 Cute-Saying: It's never to late to have a happy childhood.
swope@hpindda.HP.COM (Darrell Swope) (06/13/90)
/ hpindda:comp.unix.wizards / jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) / 6:58 pm Jun 11, 1990 / In article <23415@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>, qt@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Quan Tang) writes: > > I am going to use 'curses', but I have no references except man pages, > I will appreciate it very much if any unix expert send me some information about > it including your experience. O'Reilly & Associates (981 Chestnut Street, Newton, MA 02164) has two very well-written books: "Programming with Curses" by John Strang "Termcap and Terminfo" by John Strang, Tim O'Reilly and Linda Mui You should rush right out and get a copy of both. Put your name all over them right away, because every programmer in the vicinity will try to steal them. They are about two orders of magnitude better than anything else I've seen on the subject. Of course, if someone knows of anything as good or better, I'd like to hear about it. -- Uucp: ...!{harvard.edu,ima.com,mit-eddie.edu}!minya!jc (John Chambers) Home: 1-617-484-6393 Work: 1-508-952-3274 Cute-Saying: It's never to late to have a happy childhood. ----------
martin@mwtech.UUCP (Martin Weitzel) (06/15/90)
In article <4470014@hpindda.HP.COM> swope@hpindda.HP.COM (Darrell Swope) writes: [question about curses deleted] > >O'Reilly & Associates (981 Chestnut Street, Newton, MA 02164) has >two very well-written books: > "Programming with Curses" by John Strang A nice book from which you might learn a lot. It's a pitty that it's not quite uptodate with respect to SysV Curses. At least the one I have only deals with the old Ken Arnold Curses, though there's a promise that there will be a new edition some day for SysV Curses. > "Termcap and Terminfo" by John Strang, Tim O'Reilly and Linda Mui But this one *doesn't* show how to use curses. Other books I know of which have introductory stuff about curses are: UNIX Programming on the 80286/80386 by Alan Deikman ISBN: 0-934375-83-6 Topics in C Programming Stephen G. Kochan & Patrick H. Wood ISBN: 0-672-46290-7 The first book is mixture of somewhat unrelated stuff and often refers to XENIX and Microport SysV (in other words: a little out of date). But the curses stuff is not so bad; at least there's a non-trivial program that demonstrates use of many features. You should consider to order this book with the companion disk, if you want to save the time to re-type all the examples. BTW: There's also an introductory chapter on writing device drivers. The second book is quite a good general introduction if you have made first experiences with C and want to learn more about the standard library, UNIX system calls, and UNIX tools. (There's also a chapter about "make" and a short review on debuggers.) The only thing that is not so good with this book is that the word "UNIX" should appear in its title :-), because it's not general C topics, but much UNIX related stuff. Finally what about TFM? Well, I may be known here for flaming the manuals that are delivered with some flavours of UNIX, but what I have from ISC here in the "Programmers Guide" is not bad (IMHO it's an unchanged copy of the AT&T manual). -- Martin Weitzel, email: martin@mwtech.UUCP, voice: 49-(0)6151-6 56 83