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- Subject: Re: Borland Resource Workshop question
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.225639.130227@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- From: vcurley@zeus.calpoly.edu (Vince Curley)
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 22:56:39 GMT
- References: <1992Aug10.165708.10334@walter.cray.com> <1992Aug11.185641.174894@zeus.calpoly.edu> <Bsw5GJ.BDu@apollo.hp.com>
- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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- In article <Bsw5GJ.BDu@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
- >>A good reference? The best. It can be obtained from your friendly
- >>neighborhood bookstore. The full title is "Programming Windows" and
- >>it is by Charles Petzold. It is a great introductory text with plenty
- >>of examples and it is written in plain English. When I was working
- >>every programmer had this book at their desk.
- >
- > Yes, this is a very good book. If you can hold off a month
- > or so, the 3.1 version is supposed to come out in September.
- >
- > BTW, it might be a good idea to order the examples on floppy --
- > it will save a LOT of typing. (does anyone know if they are
- > downloadable from any BBS?)
- >
- >---peter
-
- Right, the 3.1 would be good, especially it he decided to cover OLE, etc.
- There was a major discussion (argument?) a couple months ago about the
- samples and the whole ugly mess boiled down to: They are copyrighted.
- If they are available on an ftp site or BBS they should not be. This is
- not my opinion, it's just the way copyrights work. Anyway, you
- understand...
-
- Vince
- --
- Vince "Windows, Windows, Windows" Curley
- vcurley@demeter.calpoly.edu CIS: 71055,3423
-