O'Reilly Network: Undocumented libraries of X11

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Date: Dec 23 1998
From: Karl-Heinz Welter
To: ask_tim@oreilly.com
Subject: Undocumented libraries of X11

Hi, Tim

I'm wondering if you have books which are adressing the different, otherwise undocumented libraries in the X11 package. I'm talking esp. about libXpm.a. Considdering the huge number of libraries supplied with X11 it could be quiet amazing to have better docuemntation than just to browse through the namelists and hunt for matching functions.

/karl-1

Karl,

Alas, there are so many possible projects, and so little time. This is the ideal kind of effort for Richard Stallman's volunteer authors. If his premise is correct, the absence of an O'Reilly book on these subjects ought to encourage free documentation authors to rush in to fill the void. :-)

Seriously, though, we are starting to do a little more work with X again, since it's become an important part of Linux. Expect us to focus on X libraries that are widely used under Linux, though.

--Tim

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