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From: ergo@netcom.COM (Isaac Rabinovitch)
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Subject: Re: Programming Windows (the book)
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Date: 9 May 91 01:59:52 GMT
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In <2574@pdxgate.UUCP> 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 !

Borland's poor record-keeping  and mail management is notorious.  They
sent me their version of the Windows Help Compiler without any notice.
I'm glad to have it, but what if I'd moved or something?

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

Actually, they ought to include the MS Windows Programmer's Reference
(now available separate from the SDK) instead.  Petzold is helpful for
learning Windows programming, but the PR is *essential* -- no Windows
library functions are documented in the Borland manuals.

>Cheers!!

>Booga booga!

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