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From: Jinfu@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: String copy problem
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Date: 21 Aug 88 08:07:40 GMT
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>>         You might try _The C Programming Language_ by Kernighan and
>>      Ritchie, published by Prentice-Hall.  It is considered to be
>>      *the* C reference (one company shipped it to us as
>>      documentation :-) ). 
>
>I was trying to steer him *away* from that book! That book is good as
>a reference, but *not* as a tutorial!! DO you know of any other
>tutorial-like books that tea> C in a more complete and rigourous
>fashion? 


Yes, I have the book but I'd rather read an Apollo manual :-)

The book I use to learn C is 'The C Primer, 2nd Edition' by Les
Hancock and Morris Krieger. It's just good enough to show me what C is
but lack of antidebugging/debugging (to borrow the terms from 'Oh
Pascal') information like this.

Thanks to all the people who sent me mails and posted messages about
my mistake.

Jinfu Chen