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- From: Richard.Kooijman@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl (Richard Kooijman)
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- Subject: Re: Borland C++ 3.1 vs Microsoft C/C++ 7.0
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 14:44:17 GMT
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- dfa@rabbit.physiol.unimelb.edu.au (David Abbott) writes:
-
- >You want some bugs, just take a look at the file cl-7-bug.zip in the
- >c directory of the SIMTEL20 msdos archives. It has half a dozen or so
- >small demonstration files which show up serious bugs in MSC 7.0 and
- >6.0. According to the author, all the demonstration files work with
- >C 6.01, none work with C 7.0, and some don't work with C 6.0. That's
- >right, some of the bugs in 6.0 that were fixed in 6.01 are back again
- >in 7.0. That sort of thing is unforgivable really.
-
- It seems they like doing the same job twice, but end up doing it only
- half.
-
- >By the way, is that "get an update only if you can document a bug" a
- >general Microsoft policy, or somehting peculiar to Microsoft
- >Netherlands? Perhaps someone from Microsoft may care to comment!
-
- I think I am going to contact them myself and try again.
-
- >I havn't been following this thread, but let me say I'm not trying
- >to promote Borland C++ either.
- >Any company releasing a huge program like that with such a pathetic
- >installation program needs to re-organise its priorities just a
- >little. I keep thinking they've got to do it better soon, but alas
- >each new release uses the same old "you work out exactly how
- >much space your selections will take, then feed in every disk
- >(whether its needed or not) and I'll install it for you but if you're
- >wrong and end up just 1K short of space, I'll delete everything for
- >you and you can start all over again" program! I could go on and on
- >about all the deficiencies in Borland's install program but you've
- >probably got the general idea by now!
-
- OK, I have installed Borland products while I had enough space.
- But I would like to know the other problems you had, I personally
- didn't have any troubles with it. Well, not quite true, we
- wanted to install Borland Windows groups but we had to follow the
- whole procedure again to figure out how they had done it.
- Now we know and we can make Borland Windows groups quick enough.
-
-
-
- Richard.
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