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From: GTHEALL@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU (George A. Theall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: RE: TC++ for Rainbow
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Date: 29 May 90 13:22:00 GMT
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>                                            I know there was a patch
>for TC 1.x and TC 2.0, but does anybody know if I have to patch TC++?
>What should I look for when patching?

    I did the patch for TC 2.0. Whenever I tried to run TC on my
Rainbow before applying the patch, the Rainbow would crash with the
dreaded "interrupts off" message. This even if I tried invoking TCC
with no parameters in order to see a brief help message.

    Perhaps TC++ works the same way as TC. You can check this pretty
easily by using a debugger to see if it replaces int 18h with its own
interrupt handler. You don't even need to use the Rainbow for this.
Just step through program execution a bit. Since I have never used TC++
nor have any intention of upgrading to it, I can't say whether the
program must be patched for use on the Rainbow.  Of course, if you
care to buy me a copy, ... :-) :-)

>                                 Any chance I can use the integrated
>development environment?  I have DOS 3.10b and Code Blue, if that will
>make a difference.

   Several people have reported they can use the IDE from TURBO C v2.0
with Code Blue and MSDOS v3.10b without needing to patch it. [My patches
are for the standalone components TCC and CPP only.] Whether the same
is true of the IDE for TC++ one can only guess. Try it and let us
know.

George

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