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From: martyl@rocksvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need help with MS-DOS 3.1 and COM1 device
Message-ID: <712@rocksvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Feb-87 17:39:43 EST
Article-I.D.: rocksvax.712
Posted: Tue Feb  3 17:39:43 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Feb-87 05:30:28 EST
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Reply-To: martyl@rocksvax.UUCP (Marty Leisner)
Organization: Xerox: Henrietta, NY
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Granted the Aztec libraries may have bugs, but at least they
supply the source code for their compilers.  If you have a problem, its
fairly easy to pinpoint where the problem is and either work around it or
fix it yourself.

I'm going  to buy a copy of Microsoft C since everything I buy with source code 
is intended for that compiler.  But I've seen a good number of comments in
other people's source code where patches are commented "due to Microsoft
bug".  If the source code for the libraries was available, it is often 
easy enough to fix (than to have to count on a vendor's support).

I've found very few bugs in the Aztec compilers and at least I have the
ability to fix their library bugs if I'm so inclined.  I suppose with 
Microsoft you'd have to reverse engineer their object code?

marty leisner
xerox corp.
leisner.henr@xerox.com
martyl@rocksvax.uucp