urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) (10/06/90)
In comp.unix.aux, article <45352@apple.Apple.COM>,
johnston@Apple.COM (Ron Johnston) writes:
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< >6. Are any of the AUX manuals absolutely essential - the complete
< > set is rather expensive.
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< 1) User Kit - describes shells, editors, mail, uucp, troff, etc.
< 2) Programmer's Kit - describes C, assembler, linker, libraries, system calls,
< Mac Toolbox, SCCS, awk, lex, yacc, etc. Also includes man page hardcopy.
< 3) System Administrator's Kit - describes administration and maintenance
< stuff like user/group admin, backup/restore, adding peripherals, fsck,
< configuration tuning, and network, NFS, sendmail, YP, etc.
<
Unfortunately, all of the above is very uninteresting to someone who already
knows his or her way around a typical Unix system, _except_ for the Mac
toolbox support. This includes stuff like
- that if you call NewWindow, the window record must be located in the MacOS
application heap and _not_ in your data area
- that the glue routines actually mangle your string into Pascal form
in-place, call the toolbox, then mangle it back -- deadly if your compiler
puts string constants in text space
- how to get select() and WaitNextEvent to cooperate
- what AUX_SWITCH does, how to get AUX_FORKEXEC to work without crashing the
toolbox, how to use AUX_REG_SIGIO, ...
- ...
I'm a bit reluctant to fork over $$s for the whole Programmer's Kit.
(Besides, I hate printed documentation. Why aren't these things in the online
manuals somewhere?)
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