A combination tutorial/reference first published in 1990, and here updated to include protocol clarifications of Release 5. It is identified as "volume zero" in the publisher's program of guides to the X Window system. The manual is divided into three parts: a conceptual introduction, an indexed reference, and a series of 13 appendices, including an inter-client communication conventions manual and the X logical font description convention. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Adrian Nye is the author or editor of several volumes in the X Window System Series from O'Reilly & Associates. Adrian has worked as a programmer writing educational software in C and as a mechanical engineer designing offshore oil spill cleanup equipment. He has interests in the environment and the impact of people and technology. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984 with a B.S. in mechanical engineering.