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From: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MicroGrafx Mirrors
Keywords: can't get their beta release to work
Message-ID: <2753@csccat.UUCP>
Date: 30 Apr 89 21:30:08 GMT
References: <2514@helios.ee.lbl.gov>
Reply-To: jack@csccat.UUCP (Jack Hudler)
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In article <2514@helios.ee.lbl.gov> mikec@ux1.lbl.gov (Mike Chin) writes:
<Anybody using MicroGrafix Mirrors? I've been trying
<to get their beta release to work with ver 1.06 of
<MS OS/2 w/o success, even for their own "life" example.
<It also failed on some very simple programs of
<my own. 
<
<It seems to convert the .def OK, but gives errors when
<doing the .rc. Linking the suspect .res proceeds w/o
<any error messages, but trying to run the program gives
<a "protection violation error".
<
<mike chin
<Lawrence Berkeley Labs
<MJChin@lbl.gov

As MicroGrafix is our direct compeditor this comment may be biased,
however I have heard this from numerous sources.
"Mirrors is sloooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww!"

Ok now that I have gotten that out of the way, the protection violations
may not be due to Mirrors, it may be due to your own product. 
One of the first things you find out from porting software from and
un-protected to a protected enviroment is ... all of the nill or bad
pointers used. Mirrors will not take care of this for you, you have to.
I would really try to port the software directly to PM, it's not really as 
dificult as it looks and it will definitly be faster.. much faster. I hope
you didn't spend too much money on Mirrors, you could have spent it on
porting your app to PM.

				Jack Hudler

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* OS2, what DOS should have been!