From: jonathanspam@freewave.com (Jonathan Sawyer)
Subject: Re: PB/DLL "Edit" v5.00 destroys all sources
 
In article , bob@powerbasic.com wrote:
>Thomas --
>
>Sometimes you amaze me.  You apparently spend a very large portion of
>your life offering nothing but derogatory criticism of PowerBASIC, but
>you continue to buy PowerBASIC products (You do actually purchase them,
>don't you?).  Regrettably, though, it seems you won't even lift your
>finger to do something constructive, instead.  That is very sad.
>
>If you know of a bug/error in the PowerBASIC editor, document it with
>exact instructions to reproduce it and send it to us.  In fact, send it
>to me personally (bob@powerbasic.com), and I'll review it.  So far, you
>have refused to take that normal, logical step.  Thousands of our
>customers use PB/DLL without a problem.  If you or your friend have
>found some special circumstance, provide me with the exact details and
>we'll try to reproduce it.  Then, if it really is a problem, we'll
>correct it.  If it isn't, we'll tell you what you're doing wrong.  Up to
>today, we have not been able to reproduce any error such as you describe
>so vaguely.  Consequently, unless you begin to cooperate, it is not
>possible to help you.
>
>Bob Zale
>PowerBASIC Inc.
 
 
If I could add my 2 cents worth.  The editor of PBDLL5.0 did indeed destroy
the source file if it was larger than some (undefined) size.  I brought this
to the attention of your product support staff back when it was first 
eleased
and they confirmed it.  I was sent an upgrade to fix the problem.  Frankly I
have not tested it completely as I have since broken up my source code in
smaller modules to avoid the  problem.
 
An easy check is to load a renamed copy of the winapi32.inc file into the
editor and then resave it.  It destroyed it every time.
 
 
Jonathan Sawyer
 
Freewave Technologies
 
My Email is my first name at the above domain
 
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