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Article #2414MSC 6.0 / PWB quirks
From: fredch
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 15:57
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 1990 15:57
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Has anyone else had these problems? Know any resolutions?
1. Since PWB seems to remember every file it's ever seen (well, almost 8-)
the file menu quickly fills up and spills over into the secondary file
list. To try and control the name space, I have tried to reduce things
by closing a bunch of files (one at a time). Numerous times PWB has
hung on me, forcing a reboot and even an occasional reset.
2. PWB is aware of assembler files and will even figure out dependencies
as well as invoke masm. However, none of the menus permit me to set
flags for the assembler. My kludge has been to set the flags directly
in the projects .sts file, but this is clearly less than satisfactory.
3. The editor handles tabs very poorly. If I am adding new text, tabs behave
correctly, but if I am inserting a tab into an existing line, I do not
get a tab, just a space. Ditto if I use the mouse to select a textual
portion and then retype.
4. All too often, I get this message: Out of virtual memory space - unable
to recover. I exit the session and then reinvoke PWB. Same msg. I can
only restart by rebooting.
5. Browser intermediate files are created if there are just warnings.
However, nmake refuses to build the .bsc (required to browse within PWB)
unless there are no warnings whatsoever (let alone errors, which I could
understand). Workaround was to use the menu extender/customizer facility
to invoke nmake and specify the .bsc target.
6. PWB remembers all these files but does not remember the .mak it last used
so I have to specify it every time I re-invoke PWB. Strange!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!ogicse!intelhf!starlite.hf.intel.com!fredch From: fredch@starlite.hf.intel.com Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Subject: MSC 6.0 / PWB quirks Message-ID: <834@intelhf.hf.intel.com> Date: 28 Sep 90 15:57:12 GMT Sender: guest@intelhf.hf.intel.com Reply-To: fredch@starlite.hf.intel.com () Organization: Intel Corp., Development Tools Operation, Hillsboro, OR Lines: 34