Dear All,
A question I hope somebody may be able to help me with. I've written a
program which is in distribution via the internet. Its written in
Borland Pascal 7.0, and runs under DOS. It uses nothing other than good
'ol DOS, and no OOP techniques.
I received a question the other day, asking if my program ran, or would
ever run under Unix. They knew it was written in Borland Pascal, and
asked if I had considered, or was in the process of, porting it to GNU
Pascal (Which I've been unable to locate, I'm not sure if it exists, and
is probably a misunderstanding on their part).
As I've been unable to find GNU pascal, I wanted to ask the Pascal
programmers on these groups (comp.lang.pascal.misc and
comp.lang.pascal.borland) if anybody has any experience with taking a
Borland Pascal program to a Unix pascal compiler. I'm keen to use a
freely available Pascal compiler for Unix, but have so far been unable
to locate anything other than ISO compliant compilers (which will make
taking BP code there quite difficult), or pascal to C compilers (p2c),
which defeats the objective somewhat (although it does look quite
promising). The Free compilers list is quite out of date (the html
version included). Any suggestions, comments, thoughts, ideas, etc.?
On this note, the p2c compiler supports SOME but not all of the Borland
Pascal unit operations, notably "Findfirst" and "Findnext" for file
operations - does anybody know of any modifications that have been made
to support these operations?
Look forward to hearing from you soon.
Regards,
Richard Leyton.
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newsserver has been a bit flakey of late)
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