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From: pottera@infonode.ingr.com (Andrew Potter)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Programming Windows (the book)
Message-ID: <1991May7.171715.13778@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 7 May 91 17:17:15 GMT
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Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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mwizard@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Craig Nelson) writes:

>Hi there !!!

>	Interesting little thing happend to me today.  Knock on the door
>and a UPS man holding a box from Borland Intl.  No charge.  Turned out to
>be the much-asked-about Charles Petzoid book, "Programming Windows."  I 
>thought it was very nice of Borland to send it my way.  Even nicer was the
>fact they didn't require the purchase of one of their Windows programming
>languages before they sent the book.  Thats right, I never purchased BC++,
>TPW,or Object Vision.  They just sent it.  Like an idiot I called them to 
>find out what the scoop was.  Know what the told me ?  "our mistake, keep
>it."  Nice of them to send a $30 book and pay $7 p&h for a free book w/purchase
>of a product I have never seen !

>Problem is, I got to reading the book, and now I want BC++ !!

Well as long as you are reading it, let me ask you a question.  Is this
edition  of Borland's book targeted to BC++, or does he talk about
regular old vanilla flavored C as well?  

>Cheers!!

> []====================================================================[]
> || Craig R. Nelson                | CCSofD Software Inc.              ||
> || Programmer                     | Beaverton, OR, 97005              ||
> || mwizard@eecs.ee.pdx.edu        | (unlisted on the net)             ||

Thanks,

Andrew

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