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- In a message dated 95-05-10 10:39:44 EDT, you write:
-
- >Hi SimBoss,
- >
- > I am on the Executor mailing list and I recieved a copy of your
- >MACFORM program. I am impressed. I would like to know what language
- >you
- >coded it in.
-
- I wrote it in Turbo C++ for DOS v3.0.
-
- >I am relatively new to the PC world and would like to
- >learn
- >how to program again. (I used to do pretty well with BASIC and some
- >C on
- >my old Atari ST.) Do you have any suggestions for how I should
- >start?
-
- Well, you first need to learn the keywords and conventions used by C. You
- can learn that easily with a DOS C compiler.
-
- >I am used to using PD compilers and LIBs but most of what I've seen for
- >the
- >PC in PD is a little incomplete. Are there any good books that you
- >would recommend?
-
- "Learn C Now" and "Learn C in 21 Days" are pretty good. Learn C Now comes
- with a compiler, but it can't make EXEs. I really don't know what are the
- best books are because I learned C the exact opposite way. I learned Windows
- C first simply by reading the source code and seeing what each line does.
-
- >Where is a good site for source code that shouldn't need too
- >much tweaking to compile? And finally, what programming language
- >packages
- >do you recommend. I would at least like to write some good DOS
- >programs
- >and really get familiar with that before I attempt to tackle anything
- >that
- >is GUI based.
-
- I don't really know any FTP sites (I'm talking about FTP sites in general -
- not programming ones) except for SimTel and ftp.cs.unm.edu:/pub/ardi. SimTel
- has SOME source code for you to look at.
-
- I recommend Borland's compilers. I use Turbo C++ for DOS and Turbo C++ for
- Windows. Borland C++ 4.5 is also good. To me, Borland C++ is just Turbo C++
- for DOS, Windows, Win32 and Windows/95 combined. It does have some extra
- features that make programming easier, but you pay for it. Anything that you
- can do (I mean program - I don't count Borland C++ visual application
- designer) with Borland C++ (well, except Win32 and Windows/95) you can do
- with Turbo C++ for Windows and Turbo C++ for DOS for more than a hundred
- dollars cheaper.
-
- >Well, that's it... Once again, thanks a million for MACFORM.
- >
- > Later,
- > G II L
- >
- >--
- >"Once in a while a girl comes along and opens your heart like a spam
- >tin."
- > -Thomas Dolby-
- > Astronauts & Heretics
- > Track 9- "Beauty of a Dream"
-
- I will be releasing the source code for MacForm after I add some comment
- lines. I want to release it so that a Linux programmer could port the code.
- It uses INT 13 (hex) BIOS calls, so maybe it won't work. Other than that,
- it's completely portable (I think).
-
- SimBoss
-
-