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dfa@rabbit.physiol.unimelb.edu.au (David Abbott) writes:

>You want some bugs,  just take a look at the file cl-7-bug.zip in the
>c directory of the SIMTEL20 msdos archives.  It has half a dozen or so 
>small demonstration files which show up serious bugs in MSC 7.0 and
>6.0.  According to the author,  all the demonstration files work with 
>C 6.01,  none work with C 7.0,  and some don't work with C 6.0. That's
>right,  some of the bugs in 6.0 that were fixed in 6.01 are back again
>in 7.0.  That sort of thing is unforgivable really. 

It seems they like doing the same job twice, but end up doing it only
half.

>By the way,  is that "get an update only if you can document a bug" a
>general Microsoft policy,  or somehting peculiar to Microsoft
>Netherlands?  Perhaps someone from Microsoft may care to comment!

I think I am going to contact them myself and try again.

>I havn't been following this thread,  but let me say I'm not trying
>to promote Borland C++ either. 
>Any company releasing a huge program like that with such a pathetic
>installation program needs to re-organise its priorities just a
>little.  I keep thinking they've got to do it better soon,  but alas
>each new release uses the same  old "you work out exactly how
>much space your selections will take,  then feed in every disk
>(whether its needed or not) and I'll install it for you but if you're
>wrong and end up just 1K short of space,  I'll delete everything for
>you and you can start all over again" program! I could go on and on
>about all the deficiencies in Borland's install program but you've
>probably got the general idea by now!

OK, I have installed Borland products while I had enough space.
But I would like to know the other problems you had, I personally
didn't have any troubles with it. Well, not quite true, we
wanted to install Borland Windows groups but we had to follow the
whole procedure again to figure out how they had done it.
Now we know and we can make Borland Windows groups quick enough.



Richard.
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