Hi, Jerry Coffin!
On 25 Oct 97  09:33:23 you wrote to Michael Gray
 MG> I'm taking a class in Intro to C++ and bought an academic priced
 MG> version of Visual C++ (v5 Professional Edition, I think) which had a
 MG> copy of Win NT 4.0 included (not a bad deal for $110.)  I get a lot
 MG> (couple of times a week) of 'Blue screen of death' core dumps in VC++
Not natural. I didn't encounter a single blue screen.
 MG> (mostly, though
 MG> I've gotten them in other apps.)  I've upgraded NT to Service Pack 3,
 MG> but they've continued.
Probably there's  some special hardware, a broken driver, overclocked
processor/memory/bus or alike.
 MG> I've looked on Microsoft's site searching for
 MG> upgrades to VC++ with no results, but it wasn't an exhaustive search
 MG> since I was using Netscape under OS/2 at the time (it *really* didn't
 MG> like MS's Java code.)  What is the current service level for VC++ and
 MG> how do I get my software upgraded to it?
SP2 is available for download on the MS site, and other details are there
too. But I doubt that will cure system-level traps.
 JC> The current version is service pack 2.  I'd advise picking up the
 JC> service pack on CD-ROM if you can - they charge US $14.95 for the
 JC> CD-ROM, but the service pack is 70 megabytes (no that's NOT a typo) so
 JC> it takes a LONG time to download.
It is even larger: 97 megs.  Unfortunately that 15 buck offer is only for
America, and local dealers around here do not bother working for customers.
:(
Paul
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