ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries) (10/19/89)
A Couple of things:
1) Does anyone know when we/I might expect to see a MOTIF programmers
guide book, something along the lines of Young's book on XToolkit
and the HP Widget?
2) Does anyone know the new phone # for Nutshell Books (O'Reilly)
and when the rumored XToolkit and MOTIF volumes might be
forthcoming?
Thanks,
--
Marc Ries
ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (ARPA)
somewhere!trwind!venice!ries (UUCP)
#include <std.disclaimer>lwh@harpsichord.cis.ohio-state.edu (Loyde W Hales) (10/20/89)
In article <85@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries) writes: > Does anyone know when we/I might expect to see a MOTIF programmers > guide book, something along the lines of Young's book on XToolkit > and the HP Widget? To an inquiry I made earlier, David Young (author of _X Window Systems -- Programming and Applications with Xt_) says the following: Just FYI: A Motif version of my book will be avaliable late this year from Prentice Hall, as will a five volume set written by the OSF. Addison-Wesley also has several books on Motif targeted for release next spring. You should have lots of documentation to choose from. I hope this helps some. -=- Department of Computer and Information Science Loyde W. Hales, II The Ohio State University lwh@cis.ohio-state.edu 2036 Neil Avenue Mall, Columbus, Ohio 43201
sartin@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Rob Sartin) (10/22/89)
In article <67692@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Loyde W Hales <lwh@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes: >To an inquiry I made earlier, David Young (author of _X Window Systems -- >Programming and Applications with Xt_) says the following: It's Doug Young, but the information is otherwise correct to the best of my knowledge (Doug told me the same thing :-). Rob
jamesd@qiclab.UUCP (James Deibele) (10/23/89)
In article <85@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries) writes: > 1) Does anyone know when we/I might expect to see a MOTIF programmers > guide book, something along the lines of Young's book on XToolkit > and the HP Widget? ASP (A Systems Publications) has announced a volume 4 of their X series (volumes 1 and 2 are the official MIT/DEC manuals reprinted, 3 is widgets) to cover Motif. They're uncertain when it will come out. > 2) Does anyone know the new phone # for Nutshell Books (O'Reilly) > and when the rumored XToolkit and MOTIF volumes might be > forthcoming? Their main phone number has stayed the same (1-800-338-NUTS). If that doesn't work for you, you're probably in California and want to use 1-800-533-6887. They have no idea when volumes 4 and 5 (volumes 1 and 2 are cleaned up reprints of the official manuals, 3 is a users guide, 0 is for the X Network Protocol) are going to come out. They won't even take backorders for them, which indicates that they're way, way, way out there. On the other hand, they may show up tomorrow. The first we knew that there was going to be a volume 0 was when we opened up a box and (suprise!) there was a copy. When we called down to ask what was going on, and why there wasn't even a hint that it was going to come out (we like to announce books in our news- letter before they come out), we were told that it was quite a surprise to the people there as well... I assume that this is due in part to the confusion when they moved a chunk of the company from Massachusetts to California and that things will settle down soon. They do do nice (as in useful, not necessarily "pretty") books ... -- James Deibele jamesd@qiclab BBSs: (503) 760-1473 or (503) 761-7451 TECHBooks: The Computer Book Specialists --- Voice: (503) 646-8257 12600 SW 1st Beaverton, OR 97005 --- Are you on our mailing list? BSD/Sys V X11 C++ VLSI Korn/Bourne/C Shells Comer Knuth Yourdon
linda@ora.ora.com (Linda Walsh) (11/15/89)
From article <85@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>, by ries@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Marc Ries): > > A Couple of things: > > 1) Does anyone know when we/I might expect to see a MOTIF programmers > guide book, something along the lines of Young's book on XToolkit > and the HP Widget? > > 2) Does anyone know the new phone # for Nutshell Books (O'Reilly) > and when the rumored XToolkit and MOTIF volumes might be > forthcoming? > > Thanks, > > -- > Marc Ries > ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (ARPA) > somewhere!trwind!venice!ries (UUCP) > #include <std.disclaimer> > 2) Does anyone know the new phone # for Nutshell Books (O'Reilly) > and when the rumored XToolkit and MOTIF volumes might be > forthcoming? O'Reilly's 800 toll-free number hasn't changed, although our customer service group is now located in Sebastopol, California. The local number is: 707-829-0515 From inside California: 800-533-6887 From outside California: 800-338-6887 Our two-volume set on the X Toolkit Intrinsics (a programmers guide and a reference manual, with examples based on Athena widgets) will be available the first of January. The widget sets are similar enough that these books should serve your purposes as is. Nevertheless, in the spring we plan to write a Motif version of the toolkit books. We're also planning to write a Widgets Reference Manual, which will include Open Look, Motif, and Athena widgets, due to be published in the spring. By the way, most of our R&D group is still on the East Coast, in Cambridge, Mass.: (617) 354-5800. Our phone numbers are printed in our catalog. If you're not on our mailing list, e-mail your postal address to me and I'll see that your name is included. ************************************************************* Linda Walsh (617) 354-5800 O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., Publishers of Nutshell Handbooks 90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 UUCP: uunet!ora!linda ARPA: linda@ora.uu.net *************************************************************