Thank you everyone for all the book recommendations.  I have several
O'Reilly books and they are very good and will probably be looking into
them.

Thanks


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From: netview AT toddh DOT net [mailto:netview AT toddh DOT net] 
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 12:41 PM
To: IBM NetView Discussion
Subject: Re: [NV-L] NetView development help


Dean Sullinger <DSullinger AT dot.state.az DOT us> writes:
> One last item on this and I won't bring it up here again.
> 
> I am no expert on C, most of the C apps I have written were no longer 
> than 30 or 40 lines of code and all in ANSI C.  Does anyone have a 
> suggestion on a good C book... Not C++, but just C, especially if it 
> center on Solaris. Most books I have checked into are for Microsoft 
> C++ or just plain C++, it seams to be hard to find a book center on 
> just C.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dean


Kernigan's book is the standard by which all are compared:
        http://www.bookpool.com/.x/axypsp6jd6/sm/0131103628

For unix books, it's really hard to go wrong with O'Reilly.  They have a
title Practical C Programming that is very popular:
        http://www.bookpool.com/.x/axypsp6jd6/sm/1565923065


Deitel and Deitel's books are excellent.  I have their C++ book and it was
the best of the three I had--extremely clear and easy to read (unlike
Stroustrup's book which is, IMO, for the pointiest of pointy heads). Deitel
and Deitel's C book contains a bit of C++ and Java, but I hope that doesn't
discount it from the running:
        http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130895725/deitelassociatin

I have a old book called "C by dissection" that was very clear:
        http://www.bookpool.com/.x/axypsposd0/ss/1?qs=c+by+dissection


For issues outside the scope of th language, if you're developing anything
on Unix, I've found O'Reilley's book on "Developing Software using GNU"
indispensible as well.  It talks about the GNU suite of debuggers, C
compiler options, makefiles, the gorgeous integration of all these embodied
in the Emacs editor as an integrated development environment makes this an
essential book for anyone in the unix programming environment.  This was
indispensible to me:
        http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prognu/

Best Regards, 
-- 
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/