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From: carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft Vs. Borland
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Date: 6 Oct 88 16:42:00 GMT
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Nf-From: s.cs.uiuc.edu!carroll    Oct  6 11:42:00 1988


	About porting - I have Zortech and MSC 5.1. I've been having
some problems with a particular program that I compiled with MSC, so
I thought "Hey, I'll just use Zortech, and see if it's a compiler
problem". False. Zortech totally choked on the code. I couldn't find
a way to turn off its desire to do function prototype checking. It
was also missing include files such as "sys/types.h". So I'd have to
give only marginal marks as a C compiler. On the other hand, although
I've only done some small programs, I like it as a *C++* compiler,
which is what I bought it for anyway.

P.S. The code was Doug McDonald's DVIVGA program, which is based on
Nelson Beebe's DVIxxx programs.

Alan M. Carroll          "How many danger signs did you ignore?
carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu     How many times had you heard it all before?" - AP&EW
CS Grad / U of Ill @ Urbana    ...{ucbvax,pur-ee,convex}!s.cs.uiuc.edu!carroll