Thank You! ---------- Thank you for purchasing Secrets of the Borland C++ Masters from Sams Books. About The Diskettes ------------------- DISK 1 contains the source code examples from Secrets of the Borland C++ Masters, plus the MR_ED text editor, 4PRINT utility, and the ARTOOL drawing program. You may copy any of the programs to your harddisk using the DOS COPY command or XCOPY utility program. Most programs are stored in a compressed form. Some programs, such as MR_ED will decompress themselves automatically. Most of the programs, though, require the use of the LHA decompression utility, described below. DISK 2 contains additional programs and utilities. These programs likewise require the use of the LHA decompression utility. The \SOURCE Source Code Subdirectory ------------------------------------ The source code is organized into separate subdirectories, by chapter, within the \SOURCE subdirectory. Hence, the source code for chapter 5 is located in \SOURCE\CHAP05. Please note that not all chapters in the book have source code so not all chapters are represented in the \SOURCE subdirectory. You may copy the contents of either disk to your harddisk by using the DOS XCOPY command. Assuming that you have inserted the diskette in drive A, you may type: XCOPY A:\*.* x:\subdirectory /s where x: is the hard disk drive letter, and \subdirectory is the directory where you wish to have the filed copied. A variety of subdirectories were used during the creation of this book. Hence, if you wish to use any of the include .prj project files, you will need to edit the project lists to locate the proper files. When compiling the graphics program examples, you must create a project file and include the Borland supplied graphics.lib library. Decompressing the Files ----------------------- The source files are stored in a compressed file format. Use the LHA.EXE utility program, provided on the diskette and copied to your destination directory, to decompress the files. I recommend that you copy LHA.EXE to a subdirectory that is already in your DOS PATH statement so that you can quickly access LHA just by typing the LHA program name. To decompress the files, switch to the subdirectory you wish to use and type: LHA E ARCHIVE.LZH where LHA is the name of the archive utility, E is a command line option to extract files from the archive, and ARCHIVE.LZH represents the name of the archive file containing the source code. For example, to decompress the files in chapter 5, switch to the source\chap05 directory, and run the LHA program as: LHA E CHAP05.LZH About LHA --------- LHA Version 2.12 is a data compression utility program, Copyright (c) Haruyasu Yoshizaki, 1988-1991. While the program is copyrighted, it has been graciously contributed to the public domain for use by all computer users. The program may be freely distributed subject to the restrictions provided in the file LHA213.DOC. To access all the LHA files, run the self-decompressing LHA213.EXE program. LHA compresses files into the .LZH archive file format. By choosing appropriate command lines switches, you can compress, decompress and manage all of the files in the archive. For information on using the utility, see LHA213.DOC. For a brief description of command line switches, type: LHA -? The sample programs are not guaranteed -------------------------------------- The sample programs are provided solely to illustrate programming concepts described in the text. These sample programs are not intended nor warranted in any way for use in production programs or applications. In particular, all the programs have been reviewed by several professional software engineers, however these programs have not be subjected to the rigorous testing of a professional software quality assurance organization. While you are welcome to use the routines in your own applications, you have the sole responsibility to determine if the routines are appropriate for your application and that they perform to your satisfaction.