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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: STACKER and BORLAND C++ FOR WINDOWS
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.224712.1720@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Nov17.140414.4113@admin1.memst.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:47:12 GMT
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- In <1992Nov17.140414.4113@admin1.memst.edu> jasmith@admin1.memst.edu (John) writes:
-
- > I have a question concerning STACKER and BORLAND C++ FOR WINDOWS.
- > I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but my
- > question is as follows.
-
- It's not.
-
- > I have run the installation program for
- > STACKER on my hard drive that creates the main boot drive D: and the
- > STACKER compressed drive C:. My version of BORLAND C++ FOR WINDOWS was
- > compressed on the STACKER compressed drive C:. I try to use the
- > debugger that comes with the BORLAND package and I receive an error
- > telling me that the file WINDEBUG.DLL can not be open. The DLL is a
- > compressed format for the C++ Link Library (*.LIB).
-
- Actually, a DLL is a Windows Dynamic Link Library, and they work just
- fine coming from a Stacker drive.
-
- > I know that the
- > STACKER can not handle compressed files.
-
- Since when? True, it won't COMPRESS them any more, but what do you
- think it doesn't do?
-
- > I would like to know if any
- > one using BORLAND C++ FOR WINDOWS has run into this problem. I have
- > noticed that I can not open any of the DLL files that are currently
- > located on the STACKER compressed drive.
-
- And have you changed all the internal paths to point to where the DLLs
- now are? I would bet that your problem is that you are lying to the
- compiler about where it should look for this stuff.
-
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