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- ** Join the C Acorn User Group **
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- Why should I?
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- CAUG supports C and C++ users on RISC OS machines. We provide a forum for
- sharing experience, ideas and opinions. Our membership ranges from beginners
- to experts, individuals to companies and includes Acorn, Beebug, Clares Micro
- Supplies and Icon Technology Ltd, all of whom take an active part in the group.
- Our close association with major Acorn companies allowed us to published
- detailed news of Acorn C/C++ and Easy C++ months before the mainstream
- magazines. We can also provide members with the upgrade to Acorn C/C++,
- Acorn's application notes for extending the Toolbox and access to the
- RISC_OSLib source code, all free-of-charge.
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- What will I get for my money?
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- CAUG is a special interest group of the Association of C and C++ Users (ACCU),
- so if you join you'll be a member of both. Both publish a bimonthly journal and
- CAUG produces an occasional disc. If you have an interest in C++ you can also
- join the C++ special interest group and receive Overload, their bimonthly
- journal.
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- Tell me about CAUG's journal and disc
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- CAUGers (CAUG's journal) contains:
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- Topic Examples
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- Product reviews Easy C, StrongEd, DeskEdit, Acorn C/C++
- Letters page General problems, opinions and hints and tips
- Technical articles Using outline fonts, implementing multitasking window
- redraws, printing, creating Draw files,
- object-oriented analysis and design, fractals,
- mixing C, assembler and other languages
- Hints and tips Debugging WIMP programs, Toolbox hints and tips
- Introductory articles Programming the WIMP, Toolbox programming,
- organising multi-file programs, beginning C++
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- CAUG has published interviews with the authors of Acorn C/C++ and Easy C/C++
- and articles from the developers of ArcWeb, the World Wide Web browser;
- DVIview, the TeX previewer; and Clares Micro Supplies' ProArtisan 24.
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- Our discs contain utilities, example code and technical documents and we have
- a software library which gives all members access to large or
- specialised software.
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- What's the ACCU?
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- The ACCU supports C and C++ users across all platforms. The membership is
- spread across the world and includes companies such as Microsoft, Borland and
- Clarion. As well as publishing C Vu, the ACCU organises local meetings, runs
- C/C++ related tutorials and is involved in the standardisation of the C and C++
- languages. C Vu, the ACCU's journal, contains book reviews, opinions,
- programming tutorials and challenges and discussions of portability, code
- quality and standards.
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- Will my Bank manager have something to say on the matter?
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- No. Both CAUG and the ACCU are non-profit making. All of the organisers donate
- their time; you only pay for the production of the journals and discs, and
- administration costs. As examples, the cost of joining both CAUG and the ACCU
- for the 96/97 membership year is 20 pounds for individuals and 12.50 pounds for
- full-time UK students. There are also special arrangements for German members
- to pay in DM. Full details of subscription fees are given on our membership
- form.
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- Contact Points
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- For more information, sample articles and general programming information
- look on our web pages:
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- ACCU: http://bach.cis.temple.edu/accu
- CAUG: http://www.acorn.co.uk/associates/caug
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- If you have any queries or would like a sample copy of C Vu and CAUGers posted
- to you, contact the editor of CAUGers (Paul Field):
- caug@stade.co.uk
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- For more information on the ACCU mail:
- info@stade.co.uk
- This is an automatic system that will send you the standard ACCU information.
- Please do not send queries here.
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