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From: f0057@uafhp.uucp (James E. Ward)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Calling alien programs in Turbo Pascal, how?
Keywords: Alien Pascal
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Date: 21 Sep 89 21:27:05 GMT
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Well, it's time to call on your collective net.wisdom folks.  We have
an old Turbo 3.0 database application that has a text field which is
limited to 88 characters.  Our job is to expand this field, preferably
to unlimited size.  The idea I want to try is to call an editor on a
text file from within the application so the user will have the
ultimate in expandability and editing of this field.  My question to
you is:

Can this be done in Turbo Pascal 3.0?  Must we convert the massive
thing to Turbo 5.0 (we have it)?  Can it be done from Turbo Pascal
5.0?  If so, how?

In psuedocode, I believe it would go something like:

command = "editor " + filename
system(command)

Any and all help will be appreciated.  Please take a stab at this if
you have an idea.

James Everett Ward		f0057@uafhp.uark.edu
It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the
flag.