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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS-Fortran versus Sidekick Plus
Message-ID: <6407@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 89 18:50:08 GMT
References: <98@maytag.waterloo.edu> <45900219@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <103@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <103@maytag.waterloo.edu> dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan
Murdoch) writes:
     [MS-]DOS is supposed to buffer input being read from a device in
     ASCII mode;  for some reason Sidekick Plus messes this
     up...Borland seems to be very poor at coming up with bug fixes for
     their products.

My own point of view is that SideKick *is* one huge bug.  It does weird
things to the MS-DOS software interrupt vectors that would make Bill
Gates turn over in his grave.  And it does these weird things at each
clock interrupt, not just once when it starts up.  There is no solution
to this other than "del sk.com".  SikeKick in memory is a disaster
waiting to happen.
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