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In <1991May22.214156.24610@eecs.nwu.edu> kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman) writes:

>In article <2705@pdxgate.UUCP> jita@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Hengky Jita) writes:
>>About the Windows support and the protected mode tools included in the
>>Borland 2.0 package, do we still need to get the MS Software Development
>>Toolkit package in order to write Windows program if we have had Borland 2.0?

>No.

Yes and No.

The software tools are quite complete (Whitewater Resource Kit, tdw, rc, implib,
link, etc.), but the bookware isn't. The documentation tells not a word about
the available callable Windows functions, that are in the IMPORT library.
Borland explicitly recommends that programmers buy the SDK documentation
seperately, or at least a book on windows programming.
Also, I heard (I do not have SDK) that SDK not only contains development
tools, but also a "transformation kit" which allows conversion of former
files (e.g. *.ico files, the format of which has been changed from 2.xx to 3.00).
I found that out by simply trying to compile a 2.03 example from the SDK 2.0
with BC. This worked (nearly) but then rc complained about incompatible files.

Holger

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