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From: manis@ubc-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: TDI Modula-2 V2.0 released?
Message-ID: <304@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 12-Jul-86 19:23:39 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 12 19:23:39 1986
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In article <29@nvpna1.UUCP> dorrestn@nvpna1.UUCP (Frans Dorrestein (7)42987)
writes:
>Rumours say that TDI's Modula-2 version 2.0 is on the way to replace version
>1.4 and 1.10. However I still haven't seen it yet. Has anybody in netland
>seen it, or even better used it already? If not, does anybody how long it
>will take until version 2.0 shows up?

I've had my copy for the last three weeks. It's really great; the horrendous
problems which the original version had with pathnames involving
subdirectories have been completely eliminated, and the Modula desktop is a
real convenience (though it still has a couple of annoying quirks). The
documentation is *much* better, and, all in all, it's a real improvement. 

The developer's version costs about US$70 more, but it's worth it: you get
the ETHZ post-mortem debugger, and the Megamax Resource Construction Set.
This latter is a big win over the DRI one: for one thing, it works, and 
for another, it generates Modula-syntax header files. 

The only thing is that TDI still seems to have problems in the shipping
area. It arrived (via UPS second-day service) three weeks after they assured
me all back orders had been shipped. I never bothered to track it down,
so the fault might have been TDI's or UPS's.