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- From: pete@borland.com (Pete Becker)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Borland C++ 5.0 Don't buy this piece of junk
- Date: 20 Apr 1996 00:09:21 GMT
- Organization: Borland International
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- In article <4l2a46$gfo@saba.info.ucla.edu>, thomasj@seas.ucla.edu says...
- >
- >I run NT 3.51 with 32 MB of ram. Borland C++ 5.0 crashed repeatedly
- >when I do simple editing using its editor.
-
- We've heard scattered reports of this problem, but haven't been able to
- reproduce it here.
-
- >I am using patch 1 that I
- >got from borland. I can't believe borland isn't doing anything.
-
- Good for you, cause it isn't true that we aren't doing anything.
-
- >I
- >recently bought version 4.52 and then upgraded to 5.0 hoping for
- >integrated debuggging. Now I can't delete a line of code without 5.0
- >crashing on me every other time. Version 4.52 was better I didn't
- >have problems with the editor on that version. Also BC 5.0 was the
- >only program that I every ran that was able to lock up NT completely
- >on a pretty regular basis. Its a nightmare. DON'T BUY IT.
-
- Yes, a constant problem like that makes any development platform a nightmare.
- Please call our technical support department so they can try and figure out
- what's happening. Many of us use BC++ 5.0 daily on NT 3.51, and, as I said,
- haven't run into this.
-
-