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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Microsoft C 6.0 - Documentation format
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Date: 2 May 90 16:18:19 GMT
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Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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Everybody has been complaining about the poor reference section in the
new version (I'll keep my old version 5 manuals, which BTW I also use when
I am programming using Turbo C!), but I also pity the poor first time
buyer. There is virtually no introductory material either!

I'll stick with the command line invocation of the compiler. PWB is too
clunky. It unloads itself whenever you start a compile. It runs nmake with
every step you take. Borland's Turbo environment works much better.

Users need to pretty much dedicate half a DOS <4.0 partition to it. This
program is a monster.

I couldn't get the sample programs to compile without  several hacks to the
make file.

Its completely incompatible with 386/MAX, and when I switched to their
HIMEM.SYS I crashed because their new HIMEM.SYS is incompatible with my disk
cache.

The compiler, though, generates much better code than my old 5.0 (I never
bothered with 5.1), and I'll stick with Epsilon and NDMAKE for my development
environment. (Hey, I also use SYMDEB!)

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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