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Date:      Sun, 17 Sep 2000 10:17:58 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions List <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: C programming on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20000917101758.B42114@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009161818260.39857-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net>; from fran@reyes.somos.net on Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 06:27:51PM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009161818260.39857-100000@zoraida.reyes.somos.net>

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On Saturday, 16 September 2000 at 18:27:51 -0400, Francisco Reyes wrote:
> Any hints on C programming on FreeBSD?
> In particular:
>
> -Good function list reference. This is one of the things I always admired
> of the Borland C compiler for DOS. It had a great online reference. 

Well, we have a pretty good reference too, sections 2 and 3 of the
manual.  Cross references and overviews are a little more of a
problem.

> So far I have started to read the GNU Info file.

That's not idea.  Which one?

> -Any good libraries. I noticed that some ports use Glib. This seems
> mostly a data structure (Linked list, trees, etc) library. How about
> any UI,

Hmm.  I'm sure there are more than you would like to see.  Check out
the /usr/ports/devel.

> TCP/IP library.

That's in libc.

> Is there a C library index like Cpan for Perl. Searching for
> libraries on Freshmeat returned too many irrelevant results.

The best you can find are intro(2) and intro(3).

Greg
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