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Re:Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taug... by enesunal on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @11:25AM (#19920337)
You wouldn't install Visual Studio 6 to XP easily; since it wasn't support spaces in "Program Files" directory :)
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Re:Ask HN: What overlooked class of tools should a self-taug... by Const-me on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @08:10PM (#19925013)
Long paths were introduced in Windows NT in 1993, VC6 released in 1998.

I’ve just installed Visual C++ 6.0 Professional on a WinXP VmWare machine. Took less than a minute, BTW — modern SSDs are awesome. The default installation path under program files also contain spaces, it’s "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98"

BTW, they have a bug even on the very first welcome screen: http://const.me/tmp/vc6.png

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