MS Windows from Turbo C?

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2 total messages Started by Martin Fouts Tue, 24 Jul 1990 16:13

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Author: Martin Fouts
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 1990 16:13

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I've just gotten both Turbo C++ and Microsoft windows 3.0.  What do I
need to get to be able to write programs which access MS windows in
Turbo C.  (MS C 6.0 is not an acceptable answer.)

I am lead by MS documentation to believe that I need the windows
developers kit, but it is not clear if I can use that tool from Turbo
C.  My guess is that I can't.

Any help would be appreciated.

Marty
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Re: MS Windows from Turbo C?

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Author: Sidney Markowitz
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 1990 22:58

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In article <605@garth.UUCP> fouts@bozeman.ingr.com (Martin Fouts) writes:
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>I've just gotten both Turbo C++ and Microsoft windows 3.0.  What do I
>need to get to be able to write programs which access MS windows in
>Turbo C.  (MS C 6.0 is not an acceptable answer.)

You're SOL on that. Borland has announced that they are strongly
committed to getting their stuff to work with Windows, but have not
announced any specific products or dates. Based on past performance,
they won't say much more until they actually have a product ready or
about ready to ship. So there's no way of knowing when that will be.

As for using the existing TC++ with Windows, the word from Borland is
that there are too many areas of incompatibility for it to be
practical, except for the trivial operation of running TC++ as a
non-Windows app (in a DOS shell). You'll just have to wait for the
Windows version.

-- sidney markowitz <sidney@saturn.ucsc.edu>

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