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In article <6286@bwdls58.bnr.ca> mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:
>
>So far, I have used BC++ for about three hours.
>In that time, I have noticed that the environment is MUCH
>more stable than TC++ 1.00/1.01.. *no* crashes of any kind.
>I have yet to try the WINDOWS3 stuff, though.
>
>HOWEVER.. the following two bugs may be of general interest.
>I will likely call Borland about them after the Easter weekend.
>
>
>	1) The <conio.h> routines are slightly broken.
>	When outputing a "\r\n" sequence using either putch()
>	or cputs(), these routines no longer perform an implicit
>	clreol() to clean the rest of the line before advancing.
>	This broke my port of LESS.. very obvious, as the screen
>	just filled up with identical "garbage" at the end of all
>	short lines of output.
>
>	My interim work-a-round is to simply perform a clreol()
>	immediately before outputing "\r\n".
>

	Turbo C 2.0's cputs never did this. I have never tried TC++
	so I can't tell you. Personally, I would expect it NOT to
	do a clreol() unless explicitly called. 

	One "bug" (feature?) I found in the conio stuff is with cgets.
	In TC Version 2.0 (Why the hell didn they name it Borland C++ 2.0?)
	cgets called DOS function 0x0A to get it's input. From there you
	could set buffer[0] = 254 and get 254 characters back. Now, they
	get the characters using getch. They do a signed comparison on
	the first byte in the buffer passed. The net result is that you
	can only read in 127 byte strings. (Argh!)

	A call to borland cleared this up for me, and basicly told me I need
	to write a cgets which worked like the TC 2.0 version...


- Steve

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