With D3 I could run NT for several weeks before shutting down - and then it
is only because a certain 3rd party component had a problem which required
rebooting every 24 days! With D4, I find myself shutting down several times
a day. It looks like D5 is no better than D4. Will Borland ever learn?
Dennis.
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>
> That would most likely explain most of your problems. NT is
> more stable
> than 98, but it is still incredibly unstable. I dont see how its got
> into so many big companies. There again, most of the ones running
> mission critical apps DONT use NT.
>
> ASB being the obvious exception. Pity they have (IMO) the best online
> banking.
>
> N
>
> Chris Crowe wrote:
> >
> > I will give that a try, I do hate shutting NT down....
> >
> > Chris
> >
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> > Behalf Of Nic Wise
> > Sent: Tuesday, 28 September 1999 10:08
> > To: Multiple recipients of list Delphi
> > Subject: Re: [DUG]: Delphi 5 - Stability or lack of it.
> >
> > Chris Crowe wrote:
> > >
> > > I have used Delphi 5 Professional for 1 day and have had
> over 15 access
> > > violations.
> > >
> > > I have had Delphi 5 die in a heap about 6 times.
> >
> > Interesting, my flatmate can do this to - he uses it for
> about 2 mins
> > and it dies in a big, stinkey heap.
> >
> > OTOH, my OTHER flatmate, on the same machine, can use it without
> > rebooting etc for 3-5 days with no problems at all.
> >
> > > Most of these are related to components, and doing things
> with components
> > I
> > > should not.
> >
> > Have you deleted ALL extranious files? this includes pretty much
> > everything aside from the DCR, PAS and DFM files. Something
> like that.
> >
> > > But it appears to be just like D4 with AV's all over the place.
> >
> > For me, and I'm on my 5th or so app in D5 (all were written
> in Delphi 4,
> > and I reworked them in D5), and I have had NO AV's, no
> internal compiler
> > errors (tho I _know_ how to produce them) etc, except for one D4
> > component that went totally AWOL (internal compiler
> errors). I got the
> > internal error, shutdown, rebooted, recompiled and it worked fine.
> >
> > > I will have to see how the next week goes to see if the
> problems get less
> > > or more frequent.
> > >
> > > Is Delphi 5 Patch #1 released yet?
> >
> > Not even close....
> >
> > > The latest is I get an access violation after clicking
> Edit on a package
> > so
> > > i can recompile it.
> >
> > See above recommendation. Delete everything that is not essential.
> > Better yet, start with a new package. If you EVER get an internal
> > compiler error, reboot. Period.
> >
> > > This occurs every time, even after exiting the IDE and
> reloading so
> > > basically that package is no longer usable.
> >
> > Nope, the package is still loaded. Try a reboot. Shutting
> delphi down
> > generally doesn't make a difference.
> >
> > N
> >
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