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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