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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Subject: Re: Power BASIC
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.042104.23875@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
- References: <724533413snx@tixel.mv.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:21:04 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- jarnold@tixel.mv.com (Jon Arnold) writes:
-
- >Unfortunately, the last time I called Borland for support, they told me
- >that they no longer support TB, call the PB folks. I called PB, and they
- >offer *no* upgrade policy for purchasers of the original TB; full price
- >just like everyone else. That left a bad enough taste in my mouth where
- >I bought QB and am looking at VB and PDS.
-
- Well last time I asked, there was a discount for owners of TB! That was
- only a few months ago. In fact, as a registered user of Turbo BASIC, you
- should have gotten a notice in the mail, offering an upgrade! (This was a
- couple of years back)
-
- >I've been happy with TB for what that's worth. According to the
- >advertising, the only thing worthwhile that PB has which TB doesn't have
- >is support for "far strings", if you need that capability.
-
- Actually there are a number of other enhancemants. One of the simplest,
- yet most important (to me!) is that there's a command line compiler! So
- I can call PBC from a make file.
-
-
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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