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)
Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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BITNET:840411s@Acadiasweet@scubed.UUCP (Kevin Sweet) (03/22/88)
In article <982@aucs.UUCP> 840411s@aucs.UUCP (Black Widow) writes: > [Borland's latest version of the MAKE utility is a piece of #!"*.] > >Question: Shouldn't programs get better with higher version numbers, not worse? > >-- Roy Shepard (Down and out in Wolfville, Nova Scotia) > I have also discarded the "latest and greatest" Borland MAKE (it also comes with Turbo C version 1.5) and have gone back to using version 1.0. (Actually, we would all be better off using NDMAKE or something that works like MAKE should.) Kevin -- ---- kevin sweet -------------------------------------------------------------- home: 12205 carmel vista 242, san diego, ca 92130-2237, 619-259-9338 work: 3398 carmel mountain, san diego, ca 92121-1095, 619-587-8499 ---- ARPA: sweet@kelvin -------------- UUCP: ...{ames!scubed!}kelvin!sweet ----
nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather) (03/24/88)
> [Borland's latest version of the MAKE utility is a piece of #!"*.]
The word is spelled $#!+.
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Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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