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- From: Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
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- Subject: Re: Opinion of O'Reilly Guides to the X Window System (UIL)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.001032.17060@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 00:10:32 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 12:40:33 PST
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- On the subject of UIL...
-
- I'm a new reader here (note my recent posting asking for information about
- grayscale X Terminals), with relatively little X experience. I'm actually
- programming VAX/VMS "DECwindows," in Assembly language (we don't have or use
- C), with only the DEC manuals to guide us. I took two one-week courses in
- DECwindows programming about two years ago, but found them largely incompre-
- hensible due to my own total lack of background (I'd never even SEEN or USED
- X/DECwindows before I arrived at the class). The one thing I DID understand,
- and which made it possible for me to write applications -- even "small" ones
- -- where otherwise I couldn't possibly have done so, was UIL. I for one am
- "damn glad" to have it! :-)
-
- Chris Chiesa
- Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
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