This really sounds like great news! Two questions please.

1- Will PBCC include support for COMM ports?

2- I know it's a new product but will previous users get any price
break?

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Bill
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Not that that is necessarily bad, just that I would have expected this sort of
thing to be sold as an add-on to PB/DLL.

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Ernie Deel, EFD Systems
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Everything you can imagine is real.

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Ernie Deel, EFD Systems
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Everything you can imagine is real.

Ernie,

PB/CC is much more than "PB/DLL plus console support".  I'm saddened that
you have no faith.  The console compiler is the start of a new "genre" of
compilers.  

What is the one consistant interface between operating systems?  The text
console.  PB/CC for Windows is the first in a series of products specifically
designed for multi-platform support.  Wouldn't you like to write your program
on a single platform and simply re-compile it for other platforms?  Without
having to spend hours (or days or months or years) converting between API
calls, calling conventions, etc...

With the console compiler, we provide a BASIC language which will work on all
platforms supported in the future.  PRINT, LOCATE, COLOR, CLS, LPRINT, etc.
can be supported on all platforms and we will do all of the low-level work so
that you can concentrate on just writing code.

Of course, if you *WANT* to take advantage of platform specific features (such
as linking to DLLs in Windows) we don't prevent you from doing that.  It's
your choice.

Certainly with PB/DLL you can never write code which will work on Linux, DOS,
or other platforms because the API/OS calls won't be the same on each
platform.

Certainly, if you feel you are better served calling the console API from
PB/DLL rather than using the features of PB/CC you are welcome to do that.  
But please don't tell people that PB/CC is simply PB/DLL with console support.  
It's MUCH more than that, as I'm sure you can now see.

As for PB/DLL itself, we're certainly not done with that.  We've been
collecting suggestions from thousands of users and together with some of our
own ideas, we'll certainly be updating it.  In fact, within the next few weeks
we'll be shipping a *FREE* update to every single registered user with bug
fixes and a completely new IDE with the wiz-bang features customers have been
asking for (color syntax highlighting, the ability to jump to any Sub or
Function with the click of a combo box, and more).

Who else do you know that ships FREE updates of products to customers?  
Microsoft lets you download patches for free, but if you want to get an update
disk from them you have to pay for it.

Dave Navarro, Jr.
PowerBASIC, Inc.

Regards,

Knud

I mainly use PowerBasic to easily write small programs for personal
purpose. For example: programs that will read plain text files and
convert them to HTML. This allows me to re-design my site very fast.

There is only one disadvantage: my programs are DOS based. I know
Windows '98 and NT 5 support DOS-boxes, but will future version also do?
What I'm trying to say is that with PB/CC you can write exactly the same
programs, but pure Windows-based. I think PB/CC will become *really*
handy when Windows does not support DOS-boxes anymore. Another
advantage: your programs will also work with the upcoming Win95 emulator
for Linux.

Jeroen

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says...

The majority of customers who used to bug us regularly about OS/2 support have
informed us that they have moved to Windows NT or Linux.

--Dave

There's already a company who sells a complete Linux emulator for Windows
95/NT. so that you can run Linux programs inside of Windows.

In any case, The *console* will always be around and PB/CC supports it very
well.  Personally, I may never write another DOS program again.  I can still
write command line utility and such using PB/CC with native long filename
support and more.

--Dave

--Dave

Will the PB/CC have a section in the manual that will point out the
subset of commands that will work across platforms?

Mark Phillips

BTW, why is there no upgrade for PB/DLL users?

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Ernie Deel, EFD Systems
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Everything you can imagine is real.

I'll make this as simple as I can...  PowerBASIC, Inc. wants to be your *first
choice* in BASIC programming technology.  Whether you are writing command
line/text mode programs or GUI applications, we want to give you the tools you
need.

We plan to release many new BASIC compilers and BASIC programming products
over the next 6 to 7 months.  PB/CC is available now.  Other compilers and
products will be available when they are finished.

--Dave

says...

All *BASIC* statements in the language with the exception of "DECLARE ... LIB"
should work in all platforms.  Probably what we'll do is put that information
on the web site after we've compiled the complete list.

--Dave