Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!cs3b3aj
From: cs3b3aj@maccs.McMaster.CA (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Need code for use w/Turbo Pascal 4.0 to do TSR things
Summary: Advanced Turbo Pascal book
Keywords: TSR Turbo Pascal
Message-ID: <2501@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Date: 22 Apr 89 16:14:54 GMT
Article-I.D.: maccs.2501
References: <3097@i.cc.purdue.edu> <4364@arcturus>
Reply-To: cs3b3aj@maccs.UUCP (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: McMaster U., Hamilton, Ont., Can.
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In article <4364@arcturus> mitch@arcturus.UUCP (Mitchell S. Gorman) writes:
>I have a book that's called something like "Advanced Turbo Pascal." (Sorry,
>don't remember the exact name.)  It's got a grey cover, on which it says
>such wonderful things as 'How to use the debugger', 'How to write TSRs',
[ lotsa stuff deleted ]
>VERY handy book.  Lots of info on the debugger, and other good things.
>I think it's what you're looking for (or at least, it's what you need;
>they're not always the same thing.  :^)
>I wish I could remember the exact title, or the author's name.  It's
>published by the same house that puts out that big reference volume for
>Borland.  Of course, I don't remember which one that is, either!! (It's
>either Osbourne of McGraw-Hill, although I suddenly have the sinking
>feeling someone's gonna tell me they're one and the same!)

   You expected this, so here it is:  They're the same ... they're called
Osbourne McGraw-Hill (surprise).

   As for the book (aha!  here's the important part of this post), if you're
looking for this one, make sure you get one that says it's for TP5.  I have
the Turbo PAscal 4 book called "Advanced Turbo Pascal", and it is _not at all_
like the book described above.  It has mostly stuff you'd find in a data
structures or algorithms course, with not much of it being specific to TP4.
In fact, although it has sections on the Database and Graphics toolboxes,
it (for some stupid reason) describes the Turbo 3 versions, not Turbo 4!

   Anyway, what's the point?  Just make sure you check which version you're
buying.


   Hope this helps.

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