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- From: kalsow@src.dec.com (Bill Kalsow)
- Subject: Re: Documentation for modula-3 libraries?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.194802.27147@src.dec.com>
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- Organization: DEC Systems Research Center
- References: <1993Jan8.000912.27043@slate.mines.colorado.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 19:48:02 GMT
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- Unfortunately, there isn't a single coherent exposition of the
- SRC Modula-3 libraries. The actual interfaces are often the
- best documentation. There are a few other sources:
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- "Systems Programming with Modula-3" edited by Greg Nelson
- describes the required interfaces (Text, Thread, Word, Fmt, and Pkl),
- the basic I/O streams (Rd, Wr, and Stdio), and gives a brief
- overview of the Trestle window system.
-
- SRC Report #68, "Trestle Reference Manual" by Mark S. Manasse
- and Greg Nelson, provides a detailed description of the
- Trestle interfaces. Send e-mail to "src-reports@src.dec.com"
- for a copy.
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- The soon-to-be available "FormsVBT Reference Manual" by Marc H.
- Brown and James R. Meehan describes the higher-level FormsVBT
- UI toolkit.
-
- A small group of here at SRC are working to build a small, portable,
- core collection of interfaces. Today that set includes sequences,
- atoms, tables, random numbers, times, dates, files, paths, directories
- command-line parameters, and environment variables. The documentation
- should be available soon.
-
- I hope this helps.
-
- - Bill Kalsow
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