problem on 3.86

[GanglyLamb]

hey,
i installed Borland compiler 4.52 on my 3.86 and it work just fine.
Evry code i write goes fine ... but once i want to read a file for data it gets messed up.

FILE *fl;
fl=fopen("data.txt","r");
if(fl==0){
     perror("\n");

+ i doesnt give me the error (which i clrealy asked if the file cant be accesed).
+ output to screen is always different sometimes even the pc speaker starts to make sounds :s

Is this because the 3.86 is too slow??

[Waldo2k2]

No it's not too slow, i'd say your system is unstable for some other reason. That code would run fine on a 286 even, i'd do some tests on that comp...check how the hdd is functioning first.

[GanglyLamb]

Hate to say this sry but it was some louzy coding of me that caused these things.... although when i ran the same app on a faster machine it didnt displayed those errors.....

And indeed it could be something Hard disk related.... i had to try 6 times be4 i had borland installed on it. Anyway im going to put all my code on it and see what it does now. (+ ill check my bios settings about the CAS read/write state - pick the highest of all ).

thx anyway for the reply
c ya