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From: tj@kona.cs.ucla.edu (Tom Johnson)
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Subject: Re: THINK C not-so-Update
Keywords: Annoying
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Date: 21 May 91 18:23:32 GMT
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In article <1991May21.052727.960@dartvax.dartmouth.edu> xerox@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jamie Osborne) writes:
>	My problem is that _many_ of the headers files, typedefs, and function
>definitions have been changed.  I couldn't even get any of their example
>programs to work for me (and this is after I aliased things like Menus.h
>to MenuMgr.h.  Silly me- thinking it would be easy as that).

Oh, come on, it's not that difficult to get up and running.  The problems
with the changes in the names of the header files is pretty trivial if
you are using the MacHeaders option (particularly if you use one of the
alternate MacHeaders which includes _all_ of the header files--then 
you can simply delete Menus.h an all the rest from the code).  The rest
of it is just a matter of checking your prototypes.  If you've been using
the MacProtos header files all along, even this change is relatively
painless.


>	As far as I can tell, Symantec has done a haphazard job clamoring to 
>get their software fixed for 7.0.  Furthermore, I have heard nothing from
>the company regarding upgrade information.

I haven't heard anything either, but you need to remember that you got
the 4.0.5 update off of the _Developer CD_!  This was not general release
information--this was meant for developers only, as presumably only
developers had access to 7.0 at this point.  I would hardly expect 
Symantec to mail out notices to every registered Think C user that
a new preliminary version was ready.  I do hope to see something
in the mail one of these days notifying me of a fully 7.0 compatible 
version, though.

All in all I welcome the changes that Symantec made. The prototyping 
is great (but of course I use it all the times anyways), even though
it might be annoying to have to do NewMenu(id, (StringPtr)"\pthestring").
Anything that makes a little easier to go back and forth from MPW to 
TC is OK with me.


>	When is Symantec going to get a full (COMPLETE!) upgrade out to it's
>loyal customers?

This is a good question.


>-- 
>James W. Osborne                        | email: xerox@mac.dartmouth.edu
>Systems Programmer and starving student | Disclaimer:I didn't mean it! Really!
> "The best thing you ever done for me is to help me take my life less
>        seriously.  It's only life, after all."  -Indigo Girls

Boy, I would expect an Indigo Girls fan to take these things a little
more in stride! :->  "It's only life, after all."

Tom
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