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- From: pt@geovision.gvc.com (Paul Tomblin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: New Comer - Please Help !
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.133908.24033@geovision.gvc.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 13:39:08 GMT
- References: <1704@grivel.une.edu.au> <1992Aug25.000613.3610@geovision.gvc.com> <1992Aug25.171317.8124@samba.oit.unc.edu> <1992Aug25.235044.29224@nuchat.sccsi.com> <1992Aug26.075003.6249@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Reply-To: pt@geovision.gvc.com
- Organization: Not officially GeoVision Systems Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
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- gilpin@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:
-
- > I don't know about your situations, but at my university the site license
- >with Borland allows anybody on campus to run any of the Borland compilers
- >(either on networks, or on stand-alone micros). The manuals, however, cost
- >extra. I don't teach programming using C, but if I did I think I would
-
- If that's the case, then I apologize for making a wrong assumption.
- However, I _still_ think that in a case like that the person using the
- compiler should have at least a nodding aquaintance with the manual
- set, and should be able to peruse them at some global area, like a
- library. There is no excuse for not RTFMing. If there isn't one
- manual set available where anybody who has a site-license copy can read
- it, then you are doing your students a real disservice by having a
- site-licence.
-
- --
- Paul Tomblin, pt@geovision.gvc.com or {uunet,revcan}!geovision!pt
- (This is not an official opinion of GeoVision Systems Inc.)
- Zen T-Shirt: Enlightenment Available - Enquire Within
- -- Paul Gillingwater (Paul.Gillingwater@actrix.gen.nz) on rec.humor.funny
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