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- From: woodwort@piper.cs.colorado.edu (Lee Woodworth)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: DDK Price too high??
- Keywords: Windows-NT DDK
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.015520.16946@colorado.edu>
- Date: 5 Sep 92 01:55:20 GMT
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- >The $500 price for the DDK includes preliminary printed docs
- >and the final versions of the DDK (with final printed docs)
- >as well. For comparison, the Win 3.1 DDK is also $500 but is
- >a one shot deal.
-
- >Question for all of you. Would you buy a CD only version of the
- >NT DDK?? Our assumption has been that anyone developing would
- >definitely want printed documentation, but perhaps we're wrong.
- >In answering this question, please assume the docs are on the CD
- >in Winword 2.0 format, and that everyone who buys it will print
- >out the 900 page overview manual, plus one or two other 800 page
- >manuals depending on the type of device you're writing. Is all the
- >effort to print this out (and you must have Winword) worth it??
- >Let me know.
-
- This is what I would want. I don't really have space for lots
- of manuals and being able to selectively print what I need
- saves lot of space on my bookshelf. The figures would have
- to be included of course.
-
- Since you are thinking of a CD-ROM why not also generate the
- postscript files and include them? There should be plenty
- of room on the CD-ROM.
-
- You might consider making a special purchase offer for
- Word for Windows 2.0 to those who order the CD-ROM only
- version.
-