Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!msuinfo!midway!arthur!francis From: francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Pascal Message-ID: <1990Sep26.234745.18987@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 26 Sep 90 23:47:45 GMT References: Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: Mathematics Department, University of Chicago Lines: 12 In article ph1c+@andrew.cmu.edu (Peter Nikitas Handrinos) writes: >Does anyone know how one can write some Pascal on the Mac, say in Turbo, >and then save the file, and take it to an IBM and compile it in Turbo, >there? > >When I saved the file last time, it seemed to insert a bunch of >characters in the IBM file, and lost all the formatting... I don't know what Turbo does with formatting; what I would do, if I were you, would be to Copy your text, then go to a word processor & Paste in, then save it as straight ASCII. I'm not sure what (if anything) will be lost, but you shouldn't get any weird chars inserted, anyway.