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Article #2137Re: Books on OLE?
From: Derrick Davis
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:47
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:47
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In article <1992Nov13.195204.11484@nntpserver.chevron.com> daveb@usho91.hou281.chevron.com (D.F.Butcher) writes: >In article <1992Nov11.102409.882@informix.com> christb@infmuc (Christian Barmala) writes: >>I appreciate the book "Programming Windows 3.1" by Charles Petzold. >>Regretably there was no chapter about OLE and none about Drag&Drop. > >I was about to order Petzold 3.1 by mail since I haven't been able to >find it in a bookstore. If it doesn't include OLE or D&D, and I already >have the 3.0 version, is it worth the money? > >By the way, WHY DON'T publishers offer upgrade prices on books like >these, like the software companies do? Do we need a national boycott to >avoid paying full price for one or two new chapters? I never purchased the book after thumbing thru it for that very reason. It is a shame that it is a revision of ver3.0. I was looking forward to C++ methods for Win31 ect... Yes lets boycott!!!!
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!mcdchg!laidbak!tellab5!sdc!derrick From: derrick@sdc.com (Derrick Davis) Subject: Re: Books on OLE? Message-ID: <1992Nov18.204752.7645@sdc.com> Keywords: Petzold & Ver3.1 Sender: news@sdc.com (Netnews administrator) Nntp-Posting-Host: donald Organization: Systems Development Corporation References: <1992Nov11.102409.882@informix.com> <1992Nov13.195204.11484@nntpserver.chevron.com> Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 20:47:52 GMT Lines: 19