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Subject: Re: Recommended version of C++?

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 13:03:56 02/04/00

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On February 04, 2000 at 06:47:19, Mark Taylor wrote:

>On February 04, 2000 at 03:06:12, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>While I would certainly 100% support your views about Microsoft, I have to say
>>that the Visual Studio 6.0 runs just fine under my Windows 98 (Second Edition).
>>Maybe you should reinstall it.
>
>
>It was a fresh installation!


Oops!




>>The Service Pack 3 is 120Mb in size, so good luck if you want to download it
>>from the MS site.
>
>
>It would take about a week to download over my 28k modem & my ISP has max
>connection time or 2hrs!


The SP3 has been published in several magazines. I got mine in a french
magazine.




>>However the version I have is not optimized for Pentium (I downloaded it in >1997 and never updated since that).
>
>
>The current version is 2.02 and I understand that it has many improvements/fixes
>& should be worth getting.
>
>
>> Do you know if there is a new version available,
>>with Pentium optimizations?
>
>
>PGCC is a special version of GNU C optimised for the Pentium (under Linux). Some
>people have got PGCC to work with DJGPP on the PC -
>http://www.goof.com/pcg/djgpp/index.html


OK, thanks. I'll have a look.

I knew about the new alpha version of PGCC for Linux, but I did not know if the
port to DOS had been done.



    Christophe



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