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From: 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: EXEC GIF files from within Turbo Pascal 5.5
Keywords: GIF, EXEC
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Date: 3 Dec 90 23:30:39 GMT
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Okay, so I'm new to this forum and somewhat new to Pascal as
well. I've written a program to identify the green algae
using a dichotomous key. Once the identification is made, I
want to be able to use FASTGIF to display a GIF file of the
alga itself on the screen.

My program is written in Turbo Pascal 5.5. I assumed I needed
to use EXEC to call up FASTGIF as a child process but when I
wrote what I thought would do the trick, it didn't work.
Neither did trials #2....#3,084,231.

Can someone simply e-mail me or post the proper way to use
EXEC to call up FASTGIF and my GIF file. At present Turbo
Pascal 5.5 is on the C: drive while FASTGIF and the *.GIF
files are all on the D: drive in directory D:\GRAPHICS\GIF.

Thanks for the help.

Bill Bushing
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