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The next meeting of the KW Unix User's Group will be held at 19:00 on 
Wed, September 16 in Davis Center 1302 at the University of Waterloo.

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			**THE** Agenda:
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1) Sign-in.

2) Introductions (you know -- name, rank, and serial number)

3) Presentation: Tim Tyhurst (tim@dogmead.uucp) will be making the 
   second of a two-part introductory overview of the X windowing system. 
   (Part 1 was made at the August meeting.)

	Part 2: Programming X Window Applications
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	- description of the programming interface:  how Xlib, the X 
	  Intrinsics, and Motif work together
	- strengths and weaknesses in the programming model
	- a "hello world" Motif program.

   No prior experience using X or working with X/Motif is assumed, 
   although familiarity with the C programming language is assumed.

5) Question Period: Tim will answer questions from the audience on his 
   presentation.

6) Open question period: Other comments, questions, etc. will be addressed
   at this time. Topics may include:

	Further discussion on domain parks 
	KW public access Unix
	Internetworking possibilities?
	A Christmas Social in lieu of the December 16th meeting?
	Any audience questions 

7) Adjourn to a nearby eating establishment for food and discussion.

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| About the speaker: | Tim Tyhurst is currently completing a Masters degree 
 --------------------  in Computer Science at UW doing research in user 
interfaces and visualization for symbolic computation systems. His past 
experience include 7 years work locally designing and programming a variety 
of software systems for the Unix and MS-DOS environments, 2.5 years 
experience using X; and 1 year of experience programming X.

COMING NEXT MONTH: Sean Goggin made such a good impromptu lecture on the 
vagarities of internetworking (IP, PPP, POP, and other assorted TLAs) at 
the August meeting that he was appointed to give a more detailed presentation
at the October meeting. 

See you at the meeting!

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