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From: "Nick Slaven" <NickS@ioproductions.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Visual Studio/C++
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 13:51:39 +0100
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Nick Ferguson <nickf@saqnet.co.uk> wrote in message
news:37e90399.1184380@www.netyaroze-europe.com...
> Does it *really* take up >1.5 GB on the hard drive, BTW? I only have a
> 2.1 GB hard drive!!! Surely you can install with various options, etc
> (my Office 97 install of Word and Excel only takes up 30MB) or else I
> might be stuffed. Alternately, it would provide the perfect excuse for
> getting that new >10Gb hard drive... Mmmm.

The VC++ & IDE together probably take up no more that about 300Mb, but you
will need to reference MSDN for all the docs on dev studio, C++,DirectX &
lots of other Windows information - so its worth installing that for speed
of access (takes just under 1Gb), but also bear in mind that your projects
will generate a bucket load of intermediate files some of which are quite
large (precompiled headers for instance)

Buy the student package & a mother of a hard drive. You know it makes sense.


Cheers

Nick S