Inside Macintosh: Operating System Utilities /

Preface - About This Book

Format of a Typical Chapter

Almost all chapters in this book follow a standard structure. For example, the chapter "Queue Utilities" contains these sections:

• "About Queue Utilities." This section provides an overview of the features provided by the Queue Utilities.
• "Using Queue Utilities." This section describes the tasks you can accomplish using Queue Utilities. It describes how to use the most common routines, provides code samples, and supplies additional information.
• "Queue Utilities Reference." This section provides a complete reference for the Queue Utilities by describing the data structures, and routines it uses. Each routine description also follows a standard format, which presents the routine declaration followed by a description of every parameter of the routine. Some routine descriptions also give additional descriptive information, such as assembly-language information or result codes.
• "Summary of Queue Utilities." This section provides the Pascal and C interfaces for the constants, data structures, routines, and result codes associated with Queue Utilities. It also includes relevant assembly-language interface information.