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From: fredch@starlite.hf.intel.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: MSC 6.0 / PWB quirks
Message-ID: <834@intelhf.hf.intel.com>
Date: 28 Sep 90 15:57:12 GMT
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Organization: Intel Corp., Development Tools Operation, Hillsboro, OR
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Has anyone else had these problems?  Know any resolutions?

1.  Since PWB seems to remember every file it's ever seen (well, almost 8-)
    the file menu quickly fills up and spills over into the secondary file
    list.  To try and control the name space, I have tried to reduce things
    by closing a bunch of files (one at a time).  Numerous times PWB has
    hung on me, forcing a reboot and even an occasional reset.

2.  PWB is aware of assembler files and will even figure out dependencies
    as well as invoke masm.  However, none of the menus permit me to set
    flags for the assembler.  My kludge has been to set the flags directly
    in the projects .sts file, but this is clearly less than satisfactory.

3.  The editor handles tabs very poorly.  If I am adding new text, tabs behave
    correctly, but if I am inserting a tab into an existing line, I do not
    get a tab, just a space.  Ditto if I use the mouse to select a textual
    portion and then retype.

4.  All too often, I get this message:  Out of virtual memory space - unable
    to recover.  I exit the session and then reinvoke PWB.  Same msg.  I can
    only restart by rebooting.

5.  Browser intermediate files are created if there are just warnings.
    However, nmake refuses to build the .bsc (required to browse within PWB)
    unless there are no warnings whatsoever (let alone errors, which I could
    understand).  Workaround was to use the menu extender/customizer facility
    to invoke nmake and specify the .bsc target.

6.  PWB remembers all these files but does not remember the .mak it last used
    so I have to specify it every time I re-invoke PWB.  Strange!
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