DISCLAIMER: This document leaves out lots of stuff. If you want to learn C properly, read Kernighan & Ritchie (they created the language) or Prata (``C Primer Plus''). There is also an excellent online C tutorial that can get you started from scratch very quickly. Apart from some ``do''s and ``don't''s in the next section, this document deals only with certain specific and common tasks that might not be covered explicitly in a reference manual.