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>"good" was probably from ocmparing to Borland or Zortech and the like. Could be. OTOH, we're less expensive than them as far as I know (although I think there is still a $80 or so Turbo C++, though they end up hitting $800 or so). >As for the documentation evalutation, did he give specific dislikes other >thatn "sparce?" That is not bad in itself. No explicit dislikes as far as I can see. And he does conclude that it is adequate. He was of course talking specifically about the AmigaDOS specific User's Guide. There is another more general one. That is sparce too but does have more details. > The best C reference I ever >had was a little wire bound, carboard covered AT&T Bell Labs C >Programmer's Handbook. It's all of 84 pages of sparce printing and >includes index and table of contents. It's a great little book (ISBN >0-13-110073-4 if anyone is curious). Yep. I've used that over the years too. I now use close to exclusively that ANSI C standard to look up anything nowadays though. >I've tried to locate a similar handbook from them for C++ but haven't had any >luck. Maybe your "sparce" docs would be a good substitute ;^} No, not from that perspective. Anyway, I think you will be happy to get a copy of the following text (which includes 3.0 coverage) which is intended to be in the style of Bolsky's original as you indicate (it is not spiral bound though): Lucas, Paul J, "The C++ Programmers Handbook", Prentice Hall, 1992, ISBN 0-13-118233-1.