ahodgson@hstbme.mit.edu (Antony Hodgson) (10/29/90)
A message was posted last week saying that Borland was charging $15 for their v1.01 upgrade to Turbo C++ (maintenance upgrade - i.e., bug fixes). Armed with this knowledge, I called them and expressed surprise that they were charging for bug fixes. They asked me if I had encountered any bugs, so I told them I had and mentioned that I had submitted several bug reports. They then decided to send it to me for free. Infer from my experience what you will; I suspect that most of the bugs involve intermediate to advanced features of C++ and Borland is gambling that neophytes won't run into them until it's time for them to upgrade to v2.0, whenever that comes out. Anyways, I hope this saves someone some bucks. Tony Hodgson ahodgson@hstbme.mit.edu PS. You have to call their technical support number; no-one at the 800 customer support number knows anything about this upgrade.
dts@quad.sialis.mn.org (David Sandberg) (10/31/90)
In article <1990Oct29.152249.2240@athena.mit.edu> ahodgson@hstbme.mit.edu.UUCP (Antony Hodgson) writes: >A message was posted last week saying that Borland was charging $15 >for their v1.01 upgrade to Turbo C++ (maintenance upgrade - i.e., bug >fixes). Does anyone know if there are any bug fixes included in this "1.01" release beyond what was fixed by the TCPPT1.ZIP patch disk which has been available for a while? (I assume they aren't the same thing, since TCPPT1.ZIP was just one disk, and the upgrade now coming to me in the mail is _apparently_ a multi-disk set, judging from what the Borland service rep told me.) Clarifications! We need clarifications! B-) -- \\ David Sandberg \ ,=, ,=, \\ // dts@quad.sialis.com / | |uadric `=,ystems // \\ uunet!umn-cs!sialis!quad!dts \ `=\ `=' \\