Teach Yourself OWL In 21 Days
by Ian Spencer
Copyright 1994, Sams Publishing
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Notes about installing the example code:

Most of the examples are built using IDE files as discussed
in the book. I assume a correctly installed Borland C++ compiler
and that you have the path statement correctly altered to allow
Borland C++ to find its BIN directory.

INSTALLATION

You can install to any directory you like. The examples do
not have to be in a sub-directory of your Borland C++ compiler.

Borland C++ currently does not have a facility to set a
default path for an already existing IDE file.

The include and library search paths are set to C:\BC4\INCLUDE
and C:\BC4\LIB respectively.

If your installed differently, you need to change the path. You
will know this when you get "Unable to open..." errors.

From the IDE, choose Options | Project - a multi-page dialog
will open. At the very top of the choices, select Directories
In the include path enter

   x:\BCnn\INCLUDE

where x is the drive containing the Borland C++ include directories
and BCnn is the root directory of Borland C++, normally BC4 for Borland
C++ 4.02, and BC45 for Borland C++ 4.5. For example:

  C:\BC45\INCLUDE

Similarly enter:

  x:\BCnn\LIB

in the library path, for example:

  C:\BC45\LIB

On DAY7, I have stored the steps in several subdirectories.

COMPATABILITY

Apart from the extra credit days, these examples are built
to be compatible with Borland C++ 4.02 and above. They have been
tested against both the release version of Borland C++ 4.02 and
the final field test of Borland C++ 4.5 and compile link and run
correctly.

The VBX dice example in Day 19 will only work if you have the 
Borland Visual Solutions Pack 1.1. This restriction is discussed
in the book.

Extra credit day 1 will only work with Borland C++ 4.5 which is
the first release with OCF and OLE2.

Extra credit day 2 will only work if you have the Borland Database
Engine.

-Ian Spencer, November 1994
