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From: rchen@m.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: TC 2.0 Pros/Cons
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Date: 17 Jan 89 03:47:00 GMT
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>/* Written 12:39 am  Jan 15, 1989 by schanck@salmon.cis.ohio-state.edu */
>/* ---------- "TC 2.0 Pros/Cons" ---------- */
>... 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'd say hold your horse on TC 2.0.  I am having several problems
to convert my TC 1.5 programs to TC 2.0 right now.  The dummiest
one is that in some cases (I don't know why) all TC graphics fonts
look different (mainly in size) from before when using TC 2.0.  
In some other cases (I don't know why either), the fonts look the
same but the textwidth() function returns different values under
different compilers.  Believe me, several people in our office
experienced the same problem.  We checked the compilers and the libraries
we used.  Still, no one can tell what's going on.  By the way, we
are using PS-2/50's with VGA board.  We had no trouble with TC 1.5.

-Ron Chen         Office for Information Management
                  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign