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- From: dpayne@rainbow.rmii.com (Dirk Payne)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: BC++ 5.0 IDE woes and Borland indifference
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 01:38:36 -0600
- Organization: Rocky Mountain Internet, Inc
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- I have finally taken a break from coding since getting the 5.0 IDE running
- (on both NT and 95) last Friday...sorry for the delay.
-
- A very helpful John M. at Borland and I volleyed some dumps of the system
- and tried several scenarios, finally concluding with this process:
-
- - Boot clean (safe mode is best).
- - Change to the drive and directory that your BC5 is installed in.
- This is just above the bin, lib and script directories (look for
- the INI files listed below).
- - Enter "unreg -d -v -funinst.ini". Let this process complete.
- - Enter "unreg -d -v -funreg.ini". Let this process complete, too.
- - Change to your windows drive and directory (e.g. - c:\windows)
- - Enter "bc5rmv <drive and dir of BC5>\bc5rmv.log". WAIT, and I
- do mean WAIT! This process (which has all of the appearances of
- being hung) takes several minutes to complete! BE PATIENT.
- - Boot clean (in safe mode if your CD is accessible...some aren't,
- like mine).
- - Perform a normal install of BC5. Apply the patch if you're so
- inclined (it IS a lot faster).
- - Change to the script directory of your installed BC5 system, and
- delete all .spx files (compiled scripts).
- - Start and test your IDE.
- - If all goes well, you can install the scripts into the menu bar
- by selecting "Scripts-Install/Uninstall examples" from the menu.
-
- My original symptoms were GPF's during simple editing, and compile processes
- that would hang the system. After around 60 hours of thrashing, I have yet
- to have the new system hang as it would so frequently before. Obviously
- your mileage will vary...Good luck
-