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  • Re: =?UTF-8?Q?=E2=80=9CA?= dispute over the TAB key highlights amismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational=?UTF-8?Q?structures=E2=80=9D?= by Raymond Chen

    From thanks-to@thanks-to@Taf.com to comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ on Thu Jun 4 20:54:52 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.c

    Lynn McGuire <LynnMcGuire5@GMail.com> wrote: | |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
    |"For my Windows user interface with 480,000 lines of C++ code, I use|
    |Visual C++ 2015 to build." | |--------------------------------------------------------------------|

    Hello:

    Why do you use such an old version?

    Do you detect any differences in different versions of link.exe from
    different versions of Microsoft Software Developers Kit or Visual C++?

    I need to support e.g. Windows 10 but Microsoft does not still support
    Windows 10, so a person said to me that it might be best for me to not
    use the latest Microsoft Software Developers Kit.

    Thanks in advance.
    (S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)
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  • From Lynn McGuire@lynnmcguire5@gmail.com to comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ on Thu Jun 4 17:28:18 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.c

    On 6/4/2026 3:54 PM, Nioclás Pól Caileán de Ghloucester wrote:
    Lynn McGuire <LynnMcGuire5@GMail.com> wrote: | |--------------------------------------------------------------------|
    |"For my Windows user interface with 480,000 lines of C++ code, I use| |Visual C++ 2015 to build." | |--------------------------------------------------------------------|

    Hello:

    Why do you use such an old version?

    Do you detect any differences in different versions of link.exe from different versions of Microsoft Software Developers Kit or Visual C++?

    I need to support e.g. Windows 10 but Microsoft does not still support Windows 10, so a person said to me that it might be best for me to not
    use the latest Microsoft Software Developers Kit.

    Thanks in advance.
    (S. HTTP://Gloucester.Insomnia247.NL/ fuer Kontaktdaten!)

    I have many customers running several different version of Windows.
    Even a couple running Windows XP on SCADA machines. Newer versions of
    Visual C++ require Windows 10, the latest requires Windows 11.

    The major differences in the Visual C++ distributables are the RTL, run
    time libraries.

    Lynn

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  • From Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?=@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.lang.c on Sun Jun 7 02:40:23 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.c

    On Wed, 3 Jun 2026 17:00:58 -0500, BGB wrote:

    On 5/8/2026 4:25 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    On Fri, 8 May 2026 07:57:44 +0100, Graham J wrote:

    I like mine to emulate a real typewriter - so the tab key moves to
    the next tab position - usually a multiple of 8 spaces.

    Real typewriters let you set the tab positions.

    What if we had a keyboard where carriage-return involved hitting a
    handle above the keyboard and pushing it left ...

    Really?? You have seen or used such a machine?? I’ve never heard of
    one.
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  • From Bart@bc@freeuk.com to comp.lang.c on Sun Jun 7 10:46:19 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.c

    On 07/06/2026 03:40, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Wed, 3 Jun 2026 17:00:58 -0500, BGB wrote:

    On 5/8/2026 4:25 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    On Fri, 8 May 2026 07:57:44 +0100, Graham J wrote:

    I like mine to emulate a real typewriter - so the tab key moves to
    the next tab position - usually a multiple of 8 spaces.

    Real typewriters let you set the tab positions.

    What if we had a keyboard where carriage-return involved hitting a
    handle above the keyboard and pushing it left ...

    Really?? You have seen or used such a machine?? I’ve never heard of
    one.

    Neither have I. Usually you push it right.

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  • From Richard Harnden@richard.nospam@gmail.invalid to comp.lang.c on Sun Jun 7 12:44:16 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.c

    On 07/06/2026 10:46, Bart wrote:
    On 07/06/2026 03:40, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
    On Wed, 3 Jun 2026 17:00:58 -0500, BGB wrote:

    On 5/8/2026 4:25 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:

    On Fri, 8 May 2026 07:57:44 +0100, Graham J wrote:

    I like mine to emulate a real typewriter - so the tab key moves to
    the next tab position - usually a multiple of 8 spaces.

    Real typewriters let you set the tab positions.

    What if we had a keyboard where carriage-return involved hitting a
    handle above the keyboard and pushing it left ...

    Really?? You have seen or used such a machine?? I’ve never heard of
    one.

    Neither have I. Usually you push it right.


    The handle if on the left and you push it to the right, so that the
    platter is all the way to the right and the next hammer srike is on the leftmost column of the paper.

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