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From: ergo@netcom.COM (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Borland shafts C programmers AGAIN!
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.010638.20079@netcom.COM>
Date: 30 Mar 91 01:06:38 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.173542.5153@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <1991Mar27.210412.16532@ccad.uiowa.edu>
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In <1991Mar27.210412.16532@ccad.uiowa.edu> cadsi@ccad.uiowa.edu (CADSI) writes:

>> Plus, there are many things about BC++ that are either incomplete or
>> not included.  Borland has explained this away by saying that they 
>> wanted to go to market as soon as they had something reasonable to sell.
>> 

>Speaking of which, anybody see THEIR Help Compiler yet??????

Wondered about this myself, so I left a message in their CIS forum.
I pointed out that their claim to be a complete Windows platform was
bogus if I couldn't make help files.  They replied that they had
licensed the MS Help compiler and would eventually provide it to all
registered owners of BC++.  (Wonder if they made that decision before
or after reading my message?)  Based on the Squeaky Wheel principle,
I'd suggest that everybody who wants/needs this call them up and ask
when they'll actually get round to this.

BTW, it seems to me that the Windows Help Engine would make a nice
general purpose hypertext system.


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