mwizard@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Craig Nelson) (05/07/91)
Hi there !!! Interesting little thing happend to me today. Knock on the door and a UPS man holding a box from Borland Intl. No charge. Turned out to be the much-asked-about Charles Petzoid book, "Programming Windows." I thought it was very nice of Borland to send it my way. Even nicer was the fact they didn't require the purchase of one of their Windows programming languages before they sent the book. Thats right, I never purchased BC++, TPW,or Object Vision. They just sent it. Like an idiot I called them to find out what the scoop was. Know what the told me ? "our mistake, keep it." Nice of them to send a $30 book and pay $7 p&h for a free book w/purchase of a product I have never seen ! Problem is, I got to reading the book, and now I want BC++ !! Cheers!! []====================================================================[] || Craig R. Nelson | CCSofD Software Inc. || || Programmer | Beaverton, OR, 97005 || || mwizard@eecs.ee.pdx.edu | (unlisted on the net) ||
pottera@infonode.ingr.com (Andrew Potter) (05/08/91)
mwizard@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Craig Nelson) writes: >Hi there !!! > Interesting little thing happend to me today. Knock on the door >and a UPS man holding a box from Borland Intl. No charge. Turned out to >be the much-asked-about Charles Petzoid book, "Programming Windows." I >thought it was very nice of Borland to send it my way. Even nicer was the >fact they didn't require the purchase of one of their Windows programming >languages before they sent the book. Thats right, I never purchased BC++, >TPW,or Object Vision. They just sent it. Like an idiot I called them to >find out what the scoop was. Know what the told me ? "our mistake, keep >it." Nice of them to send a $30 book and pay $7 p&h for a free book w/purchase >of a product I have never seen ! >Problem is, I got to reading the book, and now I want BC++ !! Well as long as you are reading it, let me ask you a question. Is this edition of Borland's book targeted to BC++, or does he talk about regular old vanilla flavored C as well? >Cheers!! > []====================================================================[] > || Craig R. Nelson | CCSofD Software Inc. || > || Programmer | Beaverton, OR, 97005 || > || mwizard@eecs.ee.pdx.edu | (unlisted on the net) || Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Potter | "t-crosser Intergraph Corp 205-730-8673 | i-dotter" uunet!ingr!b23b!entropy!andrew | Dr. Seuss
ergo@netcom.COM (Isaac Rabinovitch) (05/09/91)
In <2574@pdxgate.UUCP> mwizard@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Craig Nelson) writes: >Hi there !!! > Interesting little thing happend to me today. Knock on the door >and a UPS man holding a box from Borland Intl. No charge. Turned out to >be the much-asked-about Charles Petzoid book, "Programming Windows." I >thought it was very nice of Borland to send it my way. Even nicer was the >fact they didn't require the purchase of one of their Windows programming >languages before they sent the book. Thats right, I never purchased BC++, >TPW,or Object Vision. They just sent it. Like an idiot I called them to >find out what the scoop was. Know what the told me ? "our mistake, keep >it." Nice of them to send a $30 book and pay $7 p&h for a free book w/purchase >of a product I have never seen ! Borland's poor record-keeping and mail management is notorious. They sent me their version of the Windows Help Compiler without any notice. I'm glad to have it, but what if I'd moved or something? >Problem is, I got to reading the book, and now I want BC++ !! Actually, they ought to include the MS Windows Programmer's Reference (now available separate from the SDK) instead. Petzold is helpful for learning Windows programming, but the PR is *essential* -- no Windows library functions are documented in the Borland manuals. >Cheers!! >Booga booga! -- ergo@netcom.com Isaac Rabinovitch netcom!ergo@apple.com Silicon Valley, CA {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!ergo "You might well think that... I couldn't possibly comment."