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From: tek@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM (Tom Klempay)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: PforCe++
Keywords: c++, libraries, PforCe++
Message-ID: <1017@ncratl.Atlanta.NCR.COM>
Date: 14 Oct 89 00:47:39 GMT
Organization: NCR Corporation, E&M Atlanta
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In article <712@windy.dsir.govt.nz> you write:
>
>Is anyone using PforCe++?

Yep, I used it for about 3 months.  Don't mean to sound harsh, I thought it was
a piece of junk.  This was about a year and a half ago and I'm glad I haven't
have to touch it since.  Their support people were lousy and I got tired of
fixing pointer problems in their own code.

>Microsoft C 5. (I have recompiled the source but I haven't tried very hard
>to do any translation, possibly the problem is in the mixing of C and
>C++ routines).

I also started with MSC 4.0 and C++ 1.1.  I then upgraded to MSC 5.0 and C++
1.2 and asked the PforCe++ for help in upgrading their libraries.  After about
2 weeks of phone calls to their support (and no answers), I posted the
question to the net and had an answer in a day.  I recompiled all the C and
C++ libraries and stuffed the resulting object code into a  new .lib file.  I
didn't recompile the assembler code; just left it as is and it worked for what
I needed.

>PforCe++ is now a discontinued product, and I get there impression that
>there is no help from the present owner (Polytron Corp).
Of course, there wasn't much help when it was an active product :-).

Tom Klempay
NCR Corporation
E&M Atlanta
tek@ncratl.atlanta.ncr.com
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