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- From: derrick@sdc.com (Derrick Davis)
- Subject: Re: Books on OLE?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.204752.7645@sdc.com>
- Keywords: Petzold & Ver3.1
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- Organization: Systems Development Corporation
- References: <1992Nov11.102409.882@informix.com> <1992Nov13.195204.11484@nntpserver.chevron.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:47:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.195204.11484@nntpserver.chevron.com> daveb@usho91.hou281.chevron.com (D.F.Butcher) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov11.102409.882@informix.com> christb@infmuc (Christian Barmala) writes:
- >>I appreciate the book "Programming Windows 3.1" by Charles Petzold.
- >>Regretably there was no chapter about OLE and none about Drag&Drop.
- >
- >I was about to order Petzold 3.1 by mail since I haven't been able to
- >find it in a bookstore. If it doesn't include OLE or D&D, and I already
- >have the 3.0 version, is it worth the money?
- >
- >By the way, WHY DON'T publishers offer upgrade prices on books like
- >these, like the software companies do? Do we need a national boycott to
- >avoid paying full price for one or two new chapters?
-
- I never purchased the book after thumbing thru it for that very
- reason. It is a shame that it is a revision of ver3.0.
-
- I was looking forward to C++ methods for Win31 ect...
-
- Yes lets boycott!!!!
-