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echo: os2prog
to: Phil Crown
from: Darin McBride
date: 1996-06-04 22:10:48
subject: Gnu c/c++ (comments)

PC> Indellible Blue (was/is) selling BC++ 2.0 for $99, which is hard

 DM> If you're a student, PowerSoft sells Watcom C/C++ 10.6 for $99US.

 PC> Does that include all the manuals?  I've heard that the manuals are
 PC> extra and double the price of the compiler after buying them.

Yes and no.

Yes, it includes manuals.
No, they aren't hard-copy.  You get them all on the CD.

Sometimes I find it to be a royal pain, other times it is so handy... :-) 
If there's something I need to find, but don't have the first idea of where
it is, I just type:

d:\watcom\binp\help\
ffind /t"functionality" /v * | more

(note: using 4OS/2, the first line is both change drive and change dir, and
more is really list /s)

Then I'll know which INF to look in, and bring it up.  :-)

The cost of the manuals is the same price over again ($99US), IIRC.


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