On Oct 7, 2020, at 8:29, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > On 10/7/20 7:23 AM, Tomas By via cctalk wrote: >> On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 16:18:15 +0200, <dave.g4...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Would then not be on MSDN cds from around that time? >> >> >> I don't think so. I did spend some effort to locate on of those that I >> had some reference to, but it turned out to be nothing. (And I have >> checked at least ten MSDN CDs for this material.) > > I don't know if I hung onto the MSC 6.0 manuals, but am looking at what > amounts to a sizeable portion of a bookshelf that deals with 7.0. > That's a lot of paper. Just the "Comprehensive Index and Errors" book > looks to be somewhere around 400-500 pages. > > I don't believe that MSC was part of MSDN back then. At least I don't > recall seeing it on my CD collection, although ISTR that there were > services packs for it there.
My recollection is that MS Visual C 1.0 came with a big box of paper manuals. MS Visual C 1.5 was the first one where you had to take it on CD-ROM. At the time (early 1994) MSDN was a serial with approximately quarterly single CD-ROM issues whose content varied. This was all in the Time Before PDF so proprietary reading/searching software was involved. -Frank McConnell
