Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!prism!mailer.cc.fsu.edu!uflorida!mlb.semi.harris.com!trantor.harris-atd.com!trantor!dsampson From: dsampson@x102a.harris-atd.com (sampson david 58163) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Borland C++ 2.0 Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 91 14:39:37 GMT References: <1991Feb14.151804.6890@athena.mit.edu> <222@usna.NAVY.MIL> Sender: news@trantor.harris-atd.com Followup-To: comp.os.msdos.programmer Organization: Harris Gov't Aerospace Systems Division Lines: 43 In-reply-to: don@usna.navy.mil's message of 20 Feb 91 19:16:04 GMT In article <222@usna.NAVY.MIL> don@usna.navy.mil (Mr. Donald W. Garner (CADIG STAFF) ) writes: My Borland C++ 2.0 announcement indicated that "windows programming" was required. When I called the 800 number the rep couldn't tell me if anything other than Borland C++ 2.0 is required to generate complete MS Windows 3.0 applications. OK, SDK is not required. I guess I need MS Windows 3.0 to test applications. Is any part of the MS Windows 3.0 programming suite required to generate complete MS Windows applications? Two things here: Borland C++ 2.0 will generate "regular" DOS programs just like Turbo C++, or at YOUR option, you can write a program that will be a true windows application (as opposed to a "dos" program running out of a window). You DO NOT need to buy MS' SDK. Borland supplies everything you need (except a tutorial on how to write windows programs. You need to buy the Charles Petzold book for that (~1000 pages, BEST tutorial on the market)). Borland SUGGESTS that you may want to buy one or more of the SDK manuals that are available from MS Press and can be found in Walton's, Dalton's, etc. However, they do ship a BIG file that is a SDK library reference manual that can be called up through the IDE help facility (just hit F1). Once you've learned how to write a windows program and have successfully compiled it, you will need Windows 3.0 to run it. No way around that ..... -- A new world record in the javalin throw / / / I ------------------------------------------------- David Sampson Harris Corporation dsampson@x102a.ess.harris.com Gov't Aerospace Systems Divison uunet!x102a!dsampson Melbourne, Florida -------------------------------------------------------------------------------