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From: kushmer@bnlux0.bnl.gov (christopher kushmerick)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Wanted: format of binary file to link external routines in Turbo P 3.0
Keywords: Pascal, MSDOS, turbo 3.0
Message-ID: <1842@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Date: 5 May 90 16:26:05 GMT
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Organization: Brookhaven National Lab
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I have a set of routines to drive my data translation D/A card. The routines
are in binary format with a turbo pascal 3.0 interface. I want to convert
to Turbo 4.0 or 5.0.

The external declarations look like:

funtion initialize : integer; external 'pcltp.bin';

function Terminate : integer; external initialize[3];

function selectBoard (...) : integer; external initialize[6]
.
.
.

When I dump pcltp.bin, I see a jump table followed by the code.

So, two questions, 1 msdos,  1 turbo pascal

MSDOS: what is the format of such a .bin file (Produced for example by 
exe2bin.exe ?

Turbo pascal: How come turbo does not complain in the above example, when
initialize, a function, is then referenced as an array?

In general, if anyone can help me in thid conversion, I would appreciate it.

there are a ton of msdos books out there. Which are the good ones?



-- 
Chris Kushmerick

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