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From: bobmon@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (outsider)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: history.com,  from comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Message-ID: <1246@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 88 05:16:54 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@silver.UUCP (outsider)
Organization: Indiana University/Computer Science
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nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu.UUCP (Russ Nelson) writes:
>
>>But here's the quirky thing that I don't understand ...
>>[after compiling] I get an executable that's about 9K bytes long.
>
>Well, I had compiled it at home with my TC 1.0.  When I got into work after
>the weekend and compiled it with TC 1.5, there it was at 9K.  Turns out
>that putch() in TC 1.5 sucks in Borland's new text windowing package.  I'll
>post a new version after I add a configuration option, since people who have
>extended keyboards have trouble typing ^J for filename completion.  Also
>for people who like insert mode as the default :-)
>

I get it -- Microsoft starts out with <insert your favorite insult here>, and
asymptotically approaches a good product; Borland starts out with a good
product, and asymptotically approaches Microsoft.

Proof:	Turbo C is at v1.5
	Microsoft C is at v5.1
	Q.E.D.

For what it's worth, BTW, and all that jazz:  I don't have an extended
keyboard (640K keycodes is enough...) but, using Fansi-Console, I can
generate a Linefeed (0x0A) with a ctrl-RETURN.  I have no idea whether this
works with nansi/ansi/no-driver, as I haven't taken the time to reboot
with a different config.sys.  (Oh, Z-158 keyboard if that matters.)