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In response to my request for book titles on C programming, specifically
for use with GNU cc on Unix boxes, for a beginning programmer, here's
what I got...

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From: jayesh@coral.cs.jcu.edu.au (Jayesh Thakrar)

1. "THE" C book - "The C Programming Book" by Kernighan and Ritchie
   This is a difficult book to keep up with. However, it exposes the 
   power of "C" in a very subtle way.

2. "The UNIX Programming Environment" by Kernigham and Rob Pike
   This is a nice book and even new learners can use it effectively.
   It covers shell programming (very good) and C.

3. "Topics in C Programming" by Koch
   A nice book as a quick reference with examples.

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From: Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@soleil.serma.cea.fr>

W.Richard STEVENS
Advanced Programming in the UNIX environment
Addison-Wisley 1992
ISBN 0-201-56317-7

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From: eonu24@castle.edinburgh.ac.uk

My personal favourite is "Using C on the Unix System" by David A. Curry. To be
fair, I was a moderately experienced C programmer before I came across this
book but the "How to write C" bit at the start looks quite usable. The defact
standard for learning C is probably good 'ol Kernighan and Ritchie's "The C
Programming Language" but this is a bit of a beast... I use it for reference on
C things but regularly look at "Using C.." for the Unix side of things. It
covers most of the Unix peculiarities i.e. signals, processes, job control,
accounting, user and process info, networking, shared memory and BSD pseudo
terminals.

p.s. "Using C..." is a Nutshell Handbook with ftp'able example code.

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From: Fred Marchand <fred@henson.cc.wwu.edu>

If you are an established programmer looking to learn C, I would recommend:

	The C Programming Language, Second Edition.  Plaguer and Richie.
		Very concise, fast reading.  The first edition was
		considered THE bible for the language (I think there
		is a published standard now).

	The Unix Programming Environment.  Plaguer and ??.
		Very easy reading, clear, concise.  Good beginner UNIX
		book for basics and style.

	Unix Programming.  Stevens.
		Very thick, expensive, comprehensive.  Good reference
		to cover just about all aspects of Unix C programming.
		(networking will require additional books and $$$$$).