Help for programming in C

[Sukrit K Mehra <holysmoke@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Everyone. 
I am learning to program in C and I have problems learning things on linux as
most books have dos in mind. How do I avoid that?

Also, I bought this book, The C Odyssey 3: Unix
Its about c programming for Unix. 
Also it had this program which doesn't run on my linux system... though a file
called cruses.h does exist on my system.. I tried giving explicit path too.


#include "curses.h"

main()
{
	char buff[31];
	initscr();
	clear();
	flushinp();
	addstr("Enter your String :");
	refresh();
	getstr(buff);
	clear();
	move(5,30);
	addstr(buff);
	refresh();
	getch();
	endwin();
}

Why doesn't this program run. Has the cruses been changed... with effect from
ncruses. 

What books should I read...One of my friends was saying that getch() function
act different from dos version.. Is that true... Is there a programming how to
that points out all these differences etc somewhere on the net. 

sorry for the long and inchorent mail.
Thanks
Sukrit
Ps... maybe somebody could point me to a nice mailing list on C and related
topics.