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- From: grantp@usa.pipeline.com(Pete Grant)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Borland C++ Upgrades
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 22:15:07 GMT
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- On Mar 22, 1996 21:55:58 in article <Re: Borland C++ Upgrades>,
- 'dkat@psych1.psy.sunysb.edu (Donna Kat)' wrote:
-
-
-
- >I cannot expressed how really ticked off I am at BORLAND C++ 4.5 in
- >print! I was also led to believe that I would be getting upgrades.
- >When I got 4.51 and had serious problems with it (e.g. it will eat my
- >hard drive when I open DOS TURBO DEBUGGER even without using it),
- >I called to find when I would be getting an upgrade. I was told
- >emphatically that I would only get UPDATES! and that there would be no
- >free upgrades. Unfortunately, I had recycled the offer as soon as I
- >ordered the product.
- >
- Like so many other dissatisfied customers, you are being incoherent
- and inconsistent in your statements. Maybe you're so angry you
- can't think -- or at least write -- straight.
-
- Assuming that "Upgrade" means going from one major release to the
- next, and the "Update" means minor changes to an existing major version,
- I have a question: When have you ever gotten a free upgrade from any
- vendor? Exception: if you purchase a version very close to the
- release date of a new one, vendors sometimes do upgrade to the
- next version for free. In such cases, you get a written certificate to
- prove your entitlement. If you purchased 4.51, then this provision
- doesn't apply to you.
-
- Turbo Debugger eats hard drives? Aw, c'mon now, be serious. You
- don't really expect us to believe such absurdity. If there's some
- incompatibility between Turbo Debugger and some other software
- you're running, then it could just as well be the fault of the other
- program as TD. Since many thousands of peple use TD every day
- and their hard disks aren't being "eaten", I lean towards blaming
- whatever the other software might be rather than TD.
- You "open" it but don't "use" it? Please make sense.
-
- >I really liked BORLAND 3.0 and only upgraded because of the free
- >upgrade offers
-
- What free upgrade offers? From 3.0 to 4.0? I don't believe you.
-
- > and the fact that I was told that the problem I was
- >having with values not being passed to my array from a library
- >function was due to the fact that I had upgraded my motherboard and I
- >needed the upgraded compiler for the faster board. I have become
- >dependent on the debugger or I would just go back to a line command
- >compiler.
-
- Huh?? Come again. More incoherent drivel.
-
- > I will be looking for a different compiler and will not buy
-
- >anything from BORLAND. DKat
-
- --
-
- Pete Grant
- Kalevi, Inc.
- Sofware Engineering
-