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From: ahd@kendra.kew.com (Drew Derbyshire)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Windows Programming
Message-ID: <1990Jun10.232459.28297@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 10 Jun 90 23:24:59 GMT
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Sender: ahd@clutx.clarkson.edu (Drew Derbyshire)
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From article <1990Jun10.213822.22056@usenet@kadsma>, by pajerek@usenet@kadsma (Don Pajerek):
> _Programming Windows_ by Charles Petzold, published by Microsoft Press.
> This is the complete, orthodox treatment of Windows programming. It's
> not cheap, but not much is left out, either.
> 
> BTW- some sort of book is almost essential for Windows, since the
> documentation from Microsoft is little more than a reference manual,
> with little tutorial material.

Well, major question ... is the SDK needed to get to the API?  I have
not looked at programming it at all, but since I am on 286 (I already
have Windows 3.0 installed) I need to exploit standard (protected) mode
to do multitasking with my own applications.

Thanks for any suggestions.


Drew Derbyshire

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