From:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date:	Sat, 1 Feb 1997 07:47:03 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To:	mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
To:	Robert Vasquez <digital DOT fx AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: DJGPP vs Borland C++
In-Reply-To:	<32F2FDEC.AA3@worldnet.att.net>
Message-ID:	<Pine.LNX.3.95.970201074054.140q-100000@capslock.com>
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On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, Robert Vasquez wrote:

> >  Linux is obviously not for me. Maybe I'll try FreeBSD, or the Que
> >  Linux CD-ROM one day. Que book+products always seem to work well
> >  for me. However, I'm not going to claim Linux is an absolute piece
> >  of junk. Now, are you going to claim Borland's is because you
> >  couldn't get it working right? Only if your 3 years old maybe.
> 
> Well, sorry to break it to ya, but other than maybe Symantec, Borland's 
> C/C++ products are about the worst. Their glory days of TurboC 3.1 are 
> over man . . .

That is entirely YOUR opinion.  Many people including myself still use
BC3.1.  DJGPP is great, but not always necessary.  I still write about
90% of my programs in BC.  Only things I use DJ' for are programs that
need gobs of memory, and some game code that I'm working on.  All
other programs are usually small model BC3.1 programs.  I think also
that there are still more BC programmers out there than DJ'
programmers.  This is not to say anything bad about DJ', but rather to
correct the untrue statements that you have made.  BC is still a great
development system.

> > >What planet are you from?
> > 
> > You might want to answer this one yourself after your two false
> > assumptions there, Mac. I have patched commercial software using debug
> > before, it is POSSIBLE! In fact, I patched EDIT using ASCII coding
> > techniques for machine code in EDIT. It is utterly amazing what one 
> > do when one is determined. Granted I would have preferred HLL src code
> > to patch, I got the task accomplished just the same.
> 
> What exactly did you patch? Sounds kinda funny to me

I don't know what he patched, but probably the dumb *.TXT thing in the
EDIT Open File box.  Everyone and their sister has went into DEBUG on
QBASIC.EXE and patched *.TXT to be *.*.  (Also in NOTEPAD.EXE in
W3.1).  Doesn't sound funny to me!  I frequently patch software in
this manner and I suspect many others do too.



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