[comp.lang.pascal] Make II, The REVENGE!!

840411s@aucs.UUCP (Black Widow) (03/21/88)

  In an earlier posting, I inquired if anyone had had problems with BORLAND's
Make provided with Turbo Pascal 4.0.  I received a couple letters, and tried
their suggestions like invoking shells and checking memory, but Make wouldn't
even execute COMMAND!!!. So, I did some foling around with it, and gave
up.  Then it hit me, "Hey, they put Make in with Turbo C 1.0!!!", so I got
out my files, copied Make onto my work area, and IT WORKED LIKE A CHARM!!!

Now I know Make is generic, I didn't just fall off the boat, but it is odd.

Fact: TC's Make is 1.0
Fact: TP4.0 is 1.3
Fact: Both say that even though I have 640 K, it only finds 15XXX available.

Question: Shouldn't programs get better with higher version numbers, not worse?

If anyone with TP4.0 has Make 1.3, and it works with their demo GRLINK.MAK,
PLEASE mail me.  I am calling BORLAND tomorrow, but don't have much hope of
getting anything meaningful out of the conversation.

It sort of bothers me that I should pay for a package that doesn't do what
it says.  Luckily I have TC1.0, others might not be that lucky!


-- Roy Shepard (Down and out in Wolfville, Nova Scotia)


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