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Title: Programming With Curses (A Nutshell Handbook) by John Strang ISBN: 0-937175-02-1 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 October, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: OK, but...
Comment: OK on basic information, could use some more examples. My main goal was using color with SCO/Linux programs. Unfortunatly this book gives no hint that color is even possible, much less how to do it. This book must be 20 years old and doesn't appear to have been updated in all that time. HAY!!! There are color terminals now!!! And Curses supports them!!! Xterms can be in color too!!!
I found the doc files about "ncurses" that came with my "Slackware Linux" far more helpful than this book.
The book is probably OK for intro in a classroom setting to give students background, but I can't really recommend it. You can get more "useful" info from a "Yahoo" search or from linux "ncurses" documentation.
It can provide a quick reference for finding which curses function calls to use to do basic windowing and such.
Rating: 3
Summary: A good picture -- and all I could find
Comment: This book is the only general resource I could find on curses programming. Since everyone wants to make forms on character interfaces, the best way to do it through the standard TTY drivers is with the curses library. The examples were enough to prove to me that it's not a plug-in method, but that one needs to adapt one's application to use the curses library from top to bottom. It will be better to write my program with curses in mind from the beginning than to try to retrofit a finished product.
Rating: 3
Summary: Somewhat disappointed with this book....
Comment: While this book covers most of what you need to know, it would have been a great book if it gave the information in an orderly format. The only code is the spreadsheet (too simple) application at the end of the book. The documentation that came with sunos 4.1 is more comprehensive.
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Title: termcap & terminfo (O'Reilly Nutshell) by John Strang ISBN: 0937175226 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: April, 1988 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Know Your Enemy: Revealing the Security Tools, Tactics, and Motives of the Blackhat Community by The Honeynet Project, The Honeynet Project ISBN: 0201746131 Publisher: Pearson Education Pub. Date: 31 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: Programming the Perl DBI by Alligator Descartes, Tim Bunce ISBN: 1565926994 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Beginning Linux Programming (Programmer to Programmer) by Richard Stones, Neil Matthew, Alan Cox ISBN: 0764543733 Publisher: Wrox Pub. Date: 26 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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