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From: ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Turbo Debugger 2.0 and 4DOS 3.01a do not get along well
Message-ID: <12069@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 90 19:36:33 GMT
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In <15339@reed.UUCP> minar@reed.bitnet (Nelson Minar,L08,x640,7776519) writes:

>If one shells to OS, 4DOS has a few problems with the keyboard: namely, the
>command line editing is broken.  You can't hit the home key to get to the
>beginning of your prompt line, etc. Its a small problem, but its annoying.
>Perhaps TD 2.0 doesn't give up its hook into the readline routine? Furthermore,
>returning back to TD 2.0 via exit tends to crash by 286 irrevocably - time to
>hit the reset switch..

>The fix for this is simple: switch back to command.com. Unfortunately, having
>used 4DOS for 2 weeks now I am already addicted to it, so I find myself
>switching back and forth fairly frequently..
Borland TSRs are notorious for not getting along with other programs
that hook interrupts.  4DOS seems to be particularly incompatible.
Sidekick Plus hangs the machine if you install it from 4DOS and then
try to unload it.  If you install Thelp from 4DOS, the hot key gives
only an error beep every second time (and occasional dies completely),
though sometimes this problem goes away if you're running another
program under 4DOS (but not, alas, either BRIEF or the Sage Editor).

Which suggests a possible solution to your problem:  Run command.com
from 4DOS, and *then* run TD.

BTW, does TD 2.0 allow you to define other object-oriented formats
besides those in Turbo Pascal and C++?  Neither of these appeal to me
as OO languages.  I've just discovered Complete C, which has
Smalltalk-like syntax and is available in a *very* cheap shareware
version.  It'd be nice to use TD with it.
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