geller@rlgvax.UUCP (David Geller) (11/21/84)
If you have used this product I would appreciate your comments about it concerning performance, reliability, and documentation. I've read a review of PLINK86 in PC Tech Journal that leads me to believe it is an excellent product. Any additional criticisms/comments you might have would be helpful. Thank you. Product: PLINK86 Company: Phoenix Software Associates 1416 Providence Highway Norwood, MA 02062 David Geller rlgvax!geller
minitab@uwstat.UUCP (11/23/84)
> If you have used this product I would appreciate your comments about it > concerning performance, reliability, and documentation. I've read a > review of PLINK86 in PC Tech Journal that leads me to believe it is > an excellent product. Any additional criticisms/comments you might > have would be helpful. Thank you. > > Product: PLINK86 > Company: Phoenix Software Associates > 1416 Providence Highway > Norwood, MA 02062 > > David Geller > rlgvax!geller The review is right! PLINK86 is used to build all the commerical Fortran- based products for which I have information: a statistical package, a word processing package, and a database package. I recently polled my friends/ aquaintances working on the development teams for these products to see if anything better had surfaced, because we are about to convert our Fortran- based, VAX/VMS-developed product to MS DOS. They confirmed that they still use it exclusively, and are very happy with the latest version and the PFIX86 debugger. We are buying PFIX86 and the PLINK86 update. (We previously used PLINK86 to convert the beta-test version of our product to the IBM PC and found it very satisfactory at that time.) Though we use Fortran, I believe that PLINK86 may be used with any compiler that conforms to the Microsoft version of Intel's linkage conventions. My only relationship to Phoenix Software Associates is as a customer. Stephen L. Arnold, Joiner Associates Inc. Mail P.O. Box 5445, Madison WI 53705-0445 Phone 608 238-8134 Telex 650 110-6813 BITNET arnold@wiscpslb ARPA arnold%wiscpslb.BITNET@wiscvm.ARPA UUCP {allegra|cornell|purdue|ihnp4|burdvax}!psuvax1!arnold@wiscpslb.BITNET
johnl@ima.UUCP (11/27/84)
We also use PLINK86 and are quite happy with it. It links slightly slower than MS-LINK does, but since PLINK handles much larger programs, produces better maps, handles overlays, and puts a symbol table on the program, we use PLINK exclusively. PFIXPLUS, the debugger from the same people, is also pretty good. It has a nice screen interface with separate windows for instructions, data, stack, breakpoints, and such. It understands the symbol table appended to the executable file by PLINK, which makes life much easier than having to refer to a listing all the time. John Levine, Javelin Software ima!johnl