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From: elmo@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Cabot)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Porting Turbo Pascal programs to VMS
Message-ID: <9090@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 90 17:33:50 GMT
Reply-To: elmo@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Eric Cabot)
Organization: University of Rochester/Harry Faversham Nightmare Center
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Hi Folks,
  Does anyone out there have any experience porting Turbo Pascal Programs
to VMS Pascal.  Although I swore that I'd never program in VMS, I decided
to give it a whirl anyway, because I need the tools that I'm used to
having on my PC.  
  For example, is there a VMS-Pascal equivalent to gotoxy?  I'm willing
to rewrite my programs to *SOME* extent but there's no way that I'm going
to redraw the entire screen just to put a single character, or move the
cursor, into the middle of the display. 

   I'm also pretty disappointed with the string handling, not to
mention dealing with I/O to files. I know that VMS's implementation
is closer to standard than Borland's but that's no excuse. The standards
are just too chunky to allow smoothly operating programs. No wonder
all the "pro's" got out of Pascal years ago!
    So anyway, I'd appreciate it if anyone could e-mail me some tips
on making the port to VMS-Pascal.



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