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From: Pieter Kunst & Heidrun Steinhauser <kunstein AT IAEhv DOT nl>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Windows info wanted
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 21:02:38 +0200
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A.Appleyard wrote:
> 
> I am sorry to be somewhat off-topic, but: I am trying to program in Windows
> (using Turbo C++). (I have Gnu C also.) But I am missing one thing. PLEASE
> PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can someone out there tell me (email me personally) the
> name (and enough bibliographical information for me to be able to order it) a
> book (on paper, not on screen) that lists in detail how to call the Windows
> 3.1 built-in functions and messages and structs etc (preferably including OLE)
> and what they do. This I have not found in many big comprehensive-looking
> expensive books that purport to say everything that needs to be known about
> Windows.

There is one book you definitely need to have:
"Programming Windows (95)" by Charles Petzold.
If you need MFC as well, get: "Programming Windows 95 with MFC"
by Jeff Prosise.

By the way, this is the DJGPP newsgroup :-)