>Fred, haven't you missed the point of all this though? If one upgrades to version 8 from version 7, there will be no compiling in any other version than 8. Version 7 must be uninstalled.
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>Alan

I have MSDN, so no, I do NOT have to uninstall. That seems to be reserved for the "upgrade" only.

But I don't think that the EULA applies to the existing royalty-free runtimes in other versions at customer sites. I could be wrong about that.


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>>>>>Geesh! What a PITA that would be!
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>>>>Yeah, but I just thought of a better idea for ER:
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>>>>Have a switch to compile it in whatever older version you want, then the runtimes would still work as they ought to. (and it could check if you've used any newer syntax automatically, too)
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>>>I would not hold my breath on that one. < g >
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>>Me neither. < g >
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>>But that is one that I've seen done in the past. I do believe the earlier versions of Microsoft C compiler used to do it.