peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) (02/07/91)
In article <1991Feb6.090803.24537@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> css1rs@ee.surrey.ac.uk (Russell Smithers) writes: [DON'T write such long lines!] > Iv had my amiga for about 5 years know and for the last year > of that ive been messing around with C but dont have two many manuals One little hint for those who don't have (yet) the RKM's or other programming manuals, but want to get an impression of which commands and functions are available in the Amiga Operating System: Just take a look at the FD files on your Extras disk. They are plain text, you can view them from CLI or Shell by use of the Type or More command. Already these files are a little self-explanatory. I often use them as a quick reference about which parameters are needed by a certain function. Recommended. Some time ago I published a little utility (in AmigaBasic) to make this even more helpful. One information that is often needed, is which function resides in which library. So this program walks through all FD files, attaches the library name to every single line of these texts, then concatenates all these files into one big one and finally sorts this file alphabetically. So you have a nice lookup table for all available system functions. I often scan through it with the Search command to find all functions that, say, deal with "Blit" stuff. (As this was published in a German magazine which now has the copyright, I fear I may not post it here...) -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk