A how-to book with practical advice, tips, tricks, and secrets. The outline is procedure oriented, it will show practical uses of DOS. Three disks will include excellent batch files and VB for DOS programs, and shareware utilities.

This book walks readers through the fundamentals of graphics. Graphics file formats are discussed along with techniques available to manipulate these images. Graphics related hardware are also discussed. Examples are displayed throughout, including a 16-page 4-color insert. These examples are included on the disk as well.

Readers will learn the secrets to unleashing the full power of this professional database developer's tool. Provides tips and tricks for users to optimize the efficiency of their database applications.

This book specifically addresses application design issues. It presents consistent guidelines to follow and shows how to reduce the amount of analysis required to design an application. The author includes a comprehensive index written for different levels of readers. The disk includes code for ANSI C, ObjectWindows, and Microsoft Foundation Class Library for each program.

Written by a team of experts, Red Hat Linux Unleashed is your complete guide to getting the most from Linux. This book and CD-ROM work together to provide you with a complete version of Red Hat Linux 3.0.3 and all of the tools, as well as detailed coverage of every aspect of the Linux system.

A complete how-to guide for writing computer games with Visual Basic! This book/disk set provides imaginative programmers with all the tools they'll need to create entertaining computer games for fun and profit. -- Includes algorithms for image manipulation and sound generation -- Disk includes source code and executable code for both games featured in the book

A beginning tutorial comprising 21 chapters that will develop the novice user's abilities with a logical step-by-step approach with 21 lessons--one lesson per day. Each chapter is structured so that the reader can learn the material and complete the exercises in approximately 2-3 hours or less.

The how-to guide for creating computer games! Intermediate and advanced programmers learn how to use object-oriented programming to write computer games. -- Provides a quick overview of Windows programming with Borland C++ and OWL -- Includes a disk containing shareware Windows games as well as source code and executable versions of Spuzzle and Blockade

This book/disk set focuses on memory management, optimizing, and customizing OS/2. Disk includes shareware and freeware utilities. Discusses how to improve the performance of Windows and DOS applications running under OS/2.

Written for those people who want to learn a database, but do not know where to begin, this book explains completely each and every aspect of how to start using Microsoft Access. The guide includes a tearout card that contains a quick reference, handy tips, and solutions to common errors. ****MARION, IF THIS CATEGORY DOES NOT GET CHANGED FROM SPREADSHEETS TO DATABASE MANAGEMENT, PLEASE MOVE IT. THANKS.****