Subj : Re: Project Handed over. To : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp From : "Bob Barker" Date : Thu Mar 11 2004 02:16 pm Kevin, Thank you very much! I purchased BCB 3 for $10 on ebay! Hopefully everything will works! Thanks. "Kevin G. Rhoads" wrote in message news:404F5C07.7A008E56@Dartmouth.edu... > BCB 3 (Borland C++ Builder version 3) shows up on eBay fairly often. > > Having moved code from one compiler to another in the past, I'd > suggest you start by duplicating the original dev environment > including tools &c. As others have told you BC 4.5 (Borland C/C++ > version 4.5x) is older than any BCB version. Recent BCB versions > are (I think) 5.x and 6.x. > > So see if you can find BCB 3 somewhere. Get the unmodified code > to compile and link -- and run properly -- using that. Then > AND ONLY THEN try to move it to a later version of BCB. > > BC 4.5 is nice for developing 16 bit DOS and Win16 stuff, which > BCB doesn't do. But it is totally unsuited for any use in > maintaining this code. > > Good luck .