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Ronald van der Pas

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Jan 2, 2003, 4:45:46 AM1/2/03
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Hi,

I get the impression that the Turbo Power products are buggy. I use SysTools
4.0 but I got all sorts of errors which TPX admited but did not fix. Orpheus
seems to suffer the same problem all kinds of little bugs, from Help that
does not work in Orpeus the way it should to the function IsFile in
SysTools. These are all errors that a company should have seen before
distributing.
I used the dos versions of TPX, they worked fine so I am very, very
surprised and disappointed.

Ronald van der Pas


David Marcus

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Jan 2, 2003, 12:42:42 PM1/2/03
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Ronald van der Pas wrote:
> I get the impression that the Turbo Power products are buggy. I use SysTools
> 4.0 but I got all sorts of errors which TPX admited but did not fix. Orpheus
> seems to suffer the same problem all kinds of little bugs, from Help that
> does not work in Orpeus the way it should to the function IsFile in
> SysTools. These are all errors that a company should have seen before
> distributing.

SysTools and FF are generally solid and bugs get fixed. Orpheus is buggy
and there are few fixes.

> I used the dos versions of TPX, they worked fine so I am very, very
> surprised and disappointed.

Different authors. Many of the people who wrote the DOS products are no
longer with the company.

--
David Marcus

Franz-Leo Chomse [TPX]

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Jan 3, 2003, 6:34:09 AM1/3/03
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Systools contains a lot of commodity routines, i.e. small wrappers.
A lot of these are legacy from the previous tool boxes WinSys, Object
Professional and Turbo Professional and thus use the old fashioned
Pascal routines. Some of these functions are broken either by changed
API behavior in new Windows versions, or changed runtime behaviors
(like exceptions which are no longer raised )as result of the cross platform
adjustments in D6. On the other side each new Delphi version introduced
additional commodity routines, which change the status of the old fashioned
Pascal routines to deprecated and with them the status of the Systools
wrappers since the added routines (SysUtils, StrUtils, DateUtils, Math ... )
solve the same problems than the SysTools routines.

Regards from Germany

Franz-Leo


Franz-Leo Chomse(mailto:Franz-Le...@tpx.turbopower.com)
FF Foundry at http://community.turbopower.com
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