From: noer AT cygnus DOT com (Geoffrey Noer) Subject: Re: Need anwsers 20 Oct 1997 17:45:54 -0700 Message-ID: <199710202136.OAA23893.cygnus.gnu-win32@cirdan.cygnus.com> References: <01BCDD51 DOT A51900E0 AT gbird0> Content-Type: text To: colin AT bird DOT fu DOT is DOT saga-u DOT ac DOT jp (Colin Peters) Cc: ejimzz AT usit DOT net, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Colin Peters wrote: [...] > PS. The version of GNU-Win32 included with that book is b17.1 I think, the > current version is b18. Whoever told you that b17.1 can be considered > a "complete starter kit" was lying (b18 isn't either BTW). [...] Bundling the gnu-win32 releases in a book to teach C++ to beginning Win32 programmers was not a very bright thing to do. Maybe in beta 30 or so it might be a complete starter kit but right now... :-) BTW, I didn't know Samm's was going to include it or I would have strongly recommended that they *not* include gnu-win32 for that audience. *sigh* -- Geoffrey Noer noer AT cygnus DOT com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".