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From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: Using Borland C++
Message-ID: <6427@bwdls58.bnr.ca>
Date: 9 Apr 91 14:12:26 GMT
References: <1991Apr5.171426.28904@SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Sender: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca
Reply-To: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1991Apr5.171426.28904@SanDiego.NCR.COM> davel@booboo.SanDiego.NCR.COM (David Lord) writes:
<...  Overall I like the compiler and the IDE a lot
<except that I don't really want to learn a new text editor so I use Windows
<to go back and forth between BC++ and Elvis.

I put Elvis onto the Transfer menu, and also assigned a Hotkey to it.
This way, I just hit F2 and bingo.. my favorite PC editor fires up on
the source I was looking at, *at the line I was looking at*!

<I do have a number of complaints which I intend to call Borland about but
<I'm wondering if other people are having the same problems (or not having 

You can send bug reports to  bugs@borland.com
although they don't guarantee confirmation.  

There is also a file with two official patches already on Simtel/wuarchive:

	pd1:<msdos.turbo-c>bc20p1.zip

<1) Linking even a minimal Windows program on my 386SX takes twenty minutes.
<   Using Hyperdisk in Staged Write mode will cut the time down to about five.

This is *much* faster outside of Windows on my 386SX.  One idea is to either
close all of your ELVIS windows first, or assign 100% of CPU to the foreground.
ELVIS is a real CPU hog, using a polling loop to read the keyboard.  Perhaps
TAME could be of help here.

<2) Using the debugger TDW causes my mouse cursor to vanish in Windows. The
<   result is that I have to exit Windows everytime I finish with the

Somebody else has also noticed this bug.  

<      I have now found a rather kludgy way around it, I wrote a windows
<      program which calls ShowCursor(1). After exiting the debugger I
<      run this program and it gives me my cursor back.

Post it!!

<If I seem to be making a lot of complaints, I should say that I'd still
<take this product over Microsoft "C" any day.

Ditto.
-- 
MLORD@BNR.CA  Ottawa, Ontario *** Personal views only ***
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