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From: johnm@trsvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: TC 2.0 Pros/Cons
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Date: 16 Jan 89 15:46:00 GMT
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!johnm    Jan 16 09:46:00 1989


>the debugger on an educational discount, boo hiss!). What I want to
>know is could someone(s) post a convincing reason or set of reasons
>for me to upgrade to 2.0; remember, all I really care about is the
>compiler. My system is an 8088 (ok, it's a V20) with a hard drive, and
>a CGA card. So convince me! :-)

I'm sure others will post a variety of helpful reasons but here is one that
I'll bet will be missed.

The help system.

THELP is a resident TSR that takes up only 8K and stays resident on ALL my 
machines.  It gives me the handy C support that I need.  Every day (almost)
we end up asking ourselves what is the order of arguments in fread?  What are
the names of the structure elements in the ANSI time structure?  What include
file do I need when I use the findfirst() call...  THELP gives me that INSTANTLY
without having to take my hands off the keyboard.  I love it.

The organization of the help system is a hypertext one.  That allows you to
be looking at one of the ANSI time calls and then easily flip the cursor down to
the other listed calls at the bottom of the screen, press ENTER, and view the
syntax of the function.  Everything is linked. 

If you take a look at it, it will definitely sway you.

John Munsch