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Need help understanding Borland dev. products

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From: David Kirkpatrick
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:34
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Hi All,

I've been using Microsoft's development products in the past (MSC 6.0, 7.0), 
and have never used the Borland C products for any serious development.
Now I've got an opportunity to take over a contracting project that 
requires the Borland tools, and I need some help deciding what to use.

The client does not own any of the development tools, only the source code,
so we're trying to sort out how to build the product.  The previous
programmer was using a product called something like "Turbo C 2.0 
Professional Version", which apparently includes TC 2.0, TASM, and 
VROOMM.

A couple of notes about the code:
The product is heavily overlayed using VROOMM, and uses the "global" keyword
in the ASM files (TASM specific?).  The C code is pretty standard stuff, no
windows or C++.  This is about all I know about the code at this time.

So, I've got two options:
1)   Aquire a copy of these older dev tools (TC 2.0 Prof. Version) from
     somewhere.
2)   Aquire the latest and greatest from Borland and hope that it will
     be compatible enough with the older stuff to generate the same
     executables.

I'd prefer option 2, but not being familiar with the Borland tools, and 
what all the different versions contain (TC, TC++, BC++, Turbo Debugger &
Tools, etc...,) I'm not sure what to purchase.  Any recommendations for 
either option?

Thanks for any help! 
David Kirkpatrick

davidk@csn.org     Southwest Software     Durango CO     (303)-259-5879
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