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In article <27085@cs.yale.edu> spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) writes:
>In article <90309.111451NIBMSCM@NDSUVM1.BITNET> NIBMSCM@NDSUVM1.BITNET writes:
>>I know this group is not for product review, but what about programming
>>products??  ...
>
>The Programmers Library CD: last time I looked at this it was a bit
>out of date. I don't think it has been updated since it was released.

Microsoft has recently (within the last 1-2 months) announced a new version
of the Programmers' Library CD.  If it has the new Petzold (it's out!), I 
think it would be quite worthwhile.  Has anybody actually seen the new 
version?

>The run-time library source may be useful to a windows developer,
>because the windows C library is not very complete. However for those
>one or two routines you need, you might just want to write them
>yourself.

We got a copy of the library sources because I was porting some code that
used sscanf from a dll.  (That's not supported in windows.)  The code
was not very well commented and I didn't need much of the functionality,
so I ended up rewriting to avoid the use of sscanf.

I think the sources would be very useful if you needed to better understand
the behavior of a library routine, or to make romable code.
-- 
Bob Goodearl -- goodearl@world.std.com