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From: ks26+@andrew.cmu.edu (Kenneth Sykes)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Real, I mean REAL Neophyte!
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Date: 19 Mar 89 04:15:36 GMT
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Would have just sent this to Mike, but Andrew doesn't deal with external
addresses well enough... Sorry.

>     Please take pity on a newcomer to windows land, but I've got a
>  question regarding development of Windows applications.
>
>  I'm fairly proficient in MS assembler, but don't look forward to
>  developing my whole application in it.  Is there any reason why
>  TurboC cannot be used to develop MS windows applications or do you
>  HAVE to use MS C?

Link4 requires some special object records in the .obj file that Turbo-C doesn't
know how to produce (now why wouldn't Microsoft want borland to know??? :-)
The only other compiler that works with windows that I know of is Lattice.

Sincerely,
    Ken Sykes