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From: ckinsman@eecs.wsu.edu (Chris Kinsman - EE major)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: how not to develop in SDK
Message-ID: <1990Oct27.174619.10179@eecs.wsu.edu>
Date: 27 Oct 90 17:46:19 GMT
References: <5270@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: ckinsman@yoda.UUCP (Chris Kinsman - EE major)
Organization: Washington State University, Pullman
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In article <5270@crash.cts.com> alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro) writes:
>Did you know (and not a lot of people know this :-)) that...
>
>You can't be in the MSWindows 3.0 environment and compile an
>MSC 6.0 program so that you can remain in the environment
>while you compile-debug your windows application (SDK).
>The compiler runs out of heap space!!
>
>nmake when run from a DOS-PROMPT within windows 3.0, hangs
>my PS2/80 (4Mb RAM DOS3.3).
>
I do this.  Just run an older version of Make.  nmake likes to much heap.  You 
could also run the .com version of nmake that comes with C 6.0.

BTW MS doesn't answer SDK questions on Compuserve only Online.

Chris