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Linux Journal Issue #47/March 1998

Emphasis: GUIs


Features

Programming with XView by Michael Hall
This article gives you a high-level introduction to programming with XView, a GUI toolkit that complements the OpenLook interface.

CDE Infrastructure by George Kraft IV
The programming infrastructure, no its productivity tools, is a major strength of the Common Desktop Environment. This article discusses the APIs and desktop services that are benefitting developers and independent software vendors.

AfterStep 1.3.1 by Guylhem Aznar
Mr. Aznar tells us all about the developers' plans for a friendly window manager called AfterStep.

Introducing TkDesk by John Blair
Don't want to give up your Macintosh or Window desktop for Linux--with TkDesk you don't have to.

An Introduction to the GIMP Tool Kit by Otto Hammersmith
The purpose of this article is to give a short overview of what gtk+ is, what it can do and where to gather more information.

News & Articles

Linux Network Programming, Part 2: Creating Daemon Processes by Ivan Griffin and John Nelson
In part 2 of our series we learn how to design and code network daemons to serve our clients well.

The SANE Scanner Interface by David Mosberger
SANE makes it easy to support a wide variety of devices and of applications with a minimum amount of programming effort.

GPIB: Cool, It Works With Linux! by Timotej Ecimovic
GPIB is a standard bus used in laboratory and industry data acquisition and experimental control that is now available for Linux.

Getting Rid of Spam by Brandon M. Browning
Blackmail

qvplay and the Casio QV-10 Camera by Bob Hepple
Linux software to control the Casio AV-10 camera is now available. Mr. Hepple tells us how to use qvplay.

Reviews

X-Designer by Timotej Ecimovic

Accelerated X Laptop Display Server v4.1 by Michael Scott Shappe

SGML CD: A Complete SGML Toolkit by Terry Dawson

WWWsmith

ISDN and Linux--Surfing at Warp Speed by Mark Buckaway
This article presents a detailed tutorial on setting up an ISDN link to the Internet with Linux.

Columns

Letters to the Editor

Stop the Presses
Linus Wins the Nokia Award by Phil Hughes

Take Command
Ghostscript by Robert A. Kiesling
Need to preview and print PostScript Files? Here's a utility that will do just that.

Linux Means Business
Colleges Using Linux by Don Kuenz
Here are the details of how Casper College uses Linux in an academic setting.

New Products

System Administration
Automated Mail Purging for SMTP Mail by Michael S. Keller
Mr. Keller gives us three scripts for cleaning out old mail files automatically.

Kernel Korner
Networking with the Printer Port by Alessandro Rubini

Linux Gazette
Writing HTML with m4 by Bob Hepple
Ease your creation and maintenance of web pages using this handy pre-processor called m4.

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