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from: RALPH TUENKER
date: 1998-05-17 23:15:00
subject: Re: Pb/dll

From: "Ralph Tuenker" 
Subject: Re: Pb/dll
 
I agree with you. I bought the 16 and 32 bit version and the documentation
and samples are bad either. You have to be an experience C programmer when
you like to use PB/DLL effectively.
 
Ralph
 
Frank Masingill wrote in message ...
> RZ> Powerbasic is NOT shareware, and NOT freeware. There's a demo, though.
>
> RZ> http://www.powerbasic.com/, demos section, or ftp.powerbasic.com, look
> RZ> for TRYPB3.ZIP
>
>   It's one of the sorriest demos I've ever seen.  I've seen MANY that were
>MUCH better in other languages.  The TRYPB3 IDE will not even allow the
>loading of a file written in another editor.  The thing also has NO real
>tutorial that would encourage a novice to want to learn it.
>
>   If you're already an expert programmer and want to waste the time to
copy
>your code into the thing I guess one would go for it.  I was sorry I wasted
>time downloading it.
>
>Sincerely,
>                                     Frank
>
>
>
>
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