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- From: forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Forbis)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: MSDOS C Compiler advice?
- Message-ID: <forb0004.82.721891955@student.tc.umn.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 05:32:35 GMT
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- I'll be taking C this Winter quarter, and would welcome any comments about
- commercially available C compilers. We'll have a compiler available via Unix
- accounts, but I'd prefer to slap something on the hard drive of my 386,
- where it will be there after the course ends.
-
- Are the commercial products (Borland, MS) extremely complex, worthy of a
- course of themselves to learn to use? Or do they have a better interface?
-
- I noticed that MS C users can upgrade to the SDK for a mere $139; extremely
- tempting for a cash-strapped married student. However, I've heard that the
- SDK is a time- consuming pain to learn. I haven't heard much about Borland's
- frameworks, and assume you've got to dish out the $400; no upgrade. I won't
- be doing any Windows programming for some time to come, of course, but
- would like to look ahead a bit to avoid rebuying the wheel.
-
- The only difference I'm aware of is that Borland is said to compile a little
- faster and sparely. I'm won't have a lot of time to spend on the compiler
- itself, so any pretty point and run features would be welcome.
-
- BTW, is it true that there's no direct way to read and write disk volume
- labels in C? How do you get around this; is assembly required?
-
- Thanks much,
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- Eric Forbis forb0004@student.tc.umn.edu
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