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 AL> would programming change under Linux?  What are the big differences
 Greatly.
 AL> that could confuse me into trying to take my mouse hostige until my
 AL> programme decides to work?  thanx in adv
Well, for starters, you'll need to learn how to use g++.  It's a pretty 
hostile
animal to work with.  If you want to do any cursor manipulation/color
programming in console mode, you'll need to learn curses(5).
If you're looking at targetting X-Windows, you'll need to learn the X-Windows
API.  There's plenty of documentation out there for the various system calls
you can use under Linux (man page 2), but there's very little documentation
for the X-Windows calls in bookstores.  For X-Windows, for the most part,
you'll be confined to the online documentation available in /usr/X11/man.
You'll need to learn how to set up a shell script, so that your programming
environment is set up properly (proper lib, include, and what-not
environment settings...usually in Bourne Again SHell, as it tends to have
more power for system administration than the other shells, and is easier
to learn for the basic functions...and, as a programmer, you'll need root
access for a lot of things that aren't available to a common user.)
However, if you learn quickly (and don't get frustrated easily), you should
be able to get off to a rolling start within a month or two.
ttfn.
... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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