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In article <ONEEL.91Feb28101940@heawk1.rosserv.gsfc.nasa.gov> oneel@heawk1.rosserv.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Oneel ) writes:
>Overall summary?  For $100 it is great.  I'm using a very underpowered
>machine and it is usable.  Overall the documentation lacks a coherent
>feel from the windows point of view though.  Most of the intro
>material is for DOS, when you hit the windows material there is very
>little hand holding.  The readme is quite important.  According to
>borland on  CI$ the limitation on real mode windows apps comes from a
>problem with the linker which was resolved but not QC'd properly
>before shipment.  It works but isn't supported until they QC it enough
>so that they are happy.  It looks a bit rushed in places but this is
>really a combination of a 1.0 product and a 2.0 product.  The windows
>part is 1.0 and the c++ is 2.0.
>

Somewhere in the vast documentation, they recommend Charles Petzold's
Windows progrmming book. I forget the title. The idea was that there is
a *lot* of information needed to know about Windows, and Petzold is
one of the experts. (I have his book on OS/2 PM programming and it's 
excellent!)

Cheers!
Steve



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