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VBDOS questions for MS guys

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From: David A. Roland
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 16:37
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I just got my VBDOS/pro on Friday and have been pretty pleased with
it so far, I have a few problems that maybe the MS guys who read this
group can answer.

	1) TRNSLTE really locks my machine up bad everytime I run it
	but it seems to get through most of the steps, it creates the
	.MAK file with only the forms in it and outputs text files, but
	doesn't merge the text to the forms before locking up.  
	I have a 386-40 with 4meg ram and Trident SVGA running a 
	sstor compressed SCSI drive.
	2) Sometimes running/compiling goes real fast and sometimes it
	absolutely crawls, taking several minutes to run/compile.  
	It doesn't seem consistent in compile times, I guess is what
	I am trying to say.  Even if I don't change any code the binding
	step only increments the line counter once every 5-10 secs or so
	SHould it be this slow?
	3) It took forever to find any mention of SENDKEYS in the manual.
	I figured it wasn't supported but thought it should be easier to 
	find.
	4) One other problem I had was a line that looked like this:
		Sell_Form.Hide : ' Hide this form
	the editor kept changing this to a line label like this
	Sell_Form.Hide:			' Hide this form
	I couldnt get it to work right until I moved the comment down.
	This worked fine with VBwin

Other than these small problems VBDOS is great, I ported about 10k lines
of code over to DOS in no time, all I had to change were the SENDKEYS, and
touchup most of the forms.  This is exactly what I needed, so I can support
older computers with non-windows abilities.  

Thanks MicroSoft, 
-Al
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