From:	quacci AT vera DOT com (jon)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	DJGPP included in a C++ book on CD-ROM
Date:	Tue, 27 May 1997 01:35:43 GMT
Organization:	Yale University
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I was looking through the usual 60 or so C++ books at a local Barnes
and Ignoble bookstore today, and noticed that one tutorial book
provided DJGPP on CD-ROM- can't remember the name, something silly,
the usual "C++ for dummies" sort of book, but slightly more
hacker-ish.

Anyway, the book never mentions DJGPP inside, and I only figured out
what was on the CD-ROM by finding the install page in the post-index
appendix. DJGPP is all that is mentioned in regard to the CD-ROM; I
get the feeling it may be all that was on there. Usually books say if
source code for example programs, etc. is available.

Book was from 1996; don't know what version DJGPP it was. 

One thing struck me- the book was one of those that would have been
$25 if not for the usual CD-ROM in the back... instead, it was $40 or
so. Begs the interesting question, was that *really* a "free" DJGPP,
or not?! 

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