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echo: os2prog
to: John Poltorak
from: Andrew Clegg
date: 1995-03-07 08:47:40
subject: OS/2 versus Dos

Hi, John.

-=> John Poltorak spaketh unto Peter Fitzsimmons <=-

 JP> But when you try to find a beginners book for C they invariably expect
 JP> you to be using Microsoft C or Borland C and all the examples are DOS
 JP> orientated :-(.

Not necessarily. The best ones are platform-independent. In fact, I
wouldn't look twice at a beginner's book that was tied down to one
platform.

Andrew.

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