Hi Louis,
On Wednesday, 28 May 1997 at 02:23:08, Louis Rizzuto confused me
talking about: Re: newest ver delphi '97 to Don Krause
PMFJI, but...
 LR> complaints - and more. I am going from TP 6.0 to Delphi -
 LR> talk about culture shock. I stopped working
 LR> on Delphi after about a month of frustration and went
 LR> back to TP 6.0 and my DOS
 LR> Pascal functionality. Delphi? It is a pain in the butt. The
 LR> bottom line - since I want to sell this
 LR> thing once I complete it(it still is not 'complete' -
 LR> whew.) - is that a DOS apps will run under DOS, under Win
 LR> 3.1, under Win 95, under Win NT and under IBM's OS/2. That
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 LR> making my business a success. And Borland has not helped by
 LR> not putting out a BP8 and neither has MS by not putting out
 LR> a 32 bit DOS and similarly for IBM. My focus is on the ball
 LR> - a multiplatform apps that doesn't put my business into a
 LR> serious dependency show witing for MS to collapse - and my
 LR> business with it
Surely people do not want DOS based applications anymore?
They have been taken into the GUI age and like just clicking on that,
having pretty pictures etc.
OK so for a professional developer (which I am not) it must be a pita to
keep on having to cope with new OS etc. but don't you *HAVE* to to survive?
BTW, you can recompile your BP programs under Delphi as a console app
and you can then ensure that they will run in DOS7 probably with better
memory models etc.
bfn,
si.
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