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From: derek@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl (derek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Question about Turbo Pascal
Message-ID: <588@sun4dts.dts.ine.philips.nl>
Date: 31 Aug 90 12:11:05 GMT
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bradley@drutx.ATT.COM (DavidsonBC) writes:


> I am almost being forced to write a system for the University in Turbo pascal,
> But since I do not own turbo pascal let me ask some questions.....

> 1) How much control of the screen do I have for positioning characters and
>    drawing with the extended ASCII set of the IBM?

> 2) If there is not that much control in Turbo Pascal then can I use C
>    and link that together with the turbo Pascal?

>    Is the parameter passing block defined anywhere or do I have to
>    get Debug out?


>Opinions welcomed and even requested so that I can make an informed
>choice instead of a deformed choice.

>Thanks,

>Brad Davidson

You can do pretty well anything in TP as long as you know what you are
doing. Some things are not too well documented, but normally you will not
need them. One real power you have is inline code and inline macros, so
those really difficult, but small things, can be coded in assembler.

If you do need external code, it's easy to incorporate them as object files,
but these have to follow certain rather stringent rules about names of sectors
and such like. Microsoft C does not follow these rules, but turbo C does.

Hope that helps.

Best Regards, Derek Carr
DEREK@DTS.INE.PHILIPS.NL           Philips I&E TQV-5 Eindhoven, The Netherlands 
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