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- From: markh@novia.net (Mark)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Must I buy the subscription to get MS VC++ 4.1?
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 06:14:31 GMT
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- p-wahle@uiuc.edu (Peter J. Wahle) wrote:
-
- >I'm interested in buying MS VC++ 4.1.
- >I do not have a previous version.
- >Do I have to first buy MS VC++ 4.0,
- >then buy the subscription to get version 4.1?
- >Or, can I just buy version 4.1 and save myself
- >some money. As a student, the subscription
- >would nearly double the price. BC++ would
- >be less expensive, but I don't know if it includes
- >the OpenGL libraries and documentation I need.
- >
- >----------------
- >Peter J. Wahle
- >p-wahle@uiuc.edu
- >----------------
- >
- I believe the answer is that to get 4.1 you have to buy the
- subscription, since the interim releases are only supplied to
- subscribers (hence the extra cost). If you buy the non-subscription
- 4.0 then you can't get 4.1.
-
- Mark
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