On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:07:28PM +0000, John Carline wrote: > <cut> <snip> [cut again ...] > > After spending the last two days trying to convert a C program I > wrote some 6 years ago in microsoft C into linux. I just have to > echo this question. Is there no linux specific/best book that > covers gcc and g++. One that includes all the standard library > calls . I currently have four books on C (not the Kerninghan book > though. I'll have to go look at it) and they're basically > worthless. I'm not sure if it's that they're simply too old or > too 'microsoft', but I'd love to find a book on gcc that would be > a simple but complete reference for the occasional C programer.
[ standard comment: please limit your line length to <= 72 characters ] For a good general overview of the standard C library install the glibcdoc debian package, and type `info libc' (or use your favorite info reader). It is quite readable and has a lot of info on programming with ANSI standard C library functions and on typical unix programming stuff like pipes, regular expressions, sockets, process control. If you need to control character input from the keyboard and position the cursor in a terminal window, then install the ncurses development package and read the man page (man ncurses) which is rather elaborate. HTH, Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Eindhoven Univ. of Technology Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (SKA)
