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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Turbo Pascal units TSPA23##.ARC updates at uwasa.fi
Message-ID: <1991Jan6.140354.21650@uwasa.fi>
Date: 6 Jan 91 14:03:54 GMT
Sender: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Organization: University of Vaasa
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Sat 5-Jan-91: I have upgraded my Turbo Pascal units collection at
uwasa.fi archives by making several changes. Most importantly I have
divided the package into three parallel packages:
  tspa2340.arc  for Turbo Pascal 4.0 version
  tspa2350.arc  for Turbo Pascal 5.0 version
  tspa2355.arc  for Turbo Pascal 5.5 version
Thus you'll only need the package concurring with the Turbo Pascal
version you use yourself. With the exception of the differences
inherent to the different releases of Turbo Pascal, the packages are
the same.
   I am expecting Turbo Pascal 6.0, but it has not arrived yet.
   I have added a new unit TSERR.TPU which turn on the verbal
run-time error messages. It is very easy to use. Just include
 uses TSERR;
at the beginning of your main program and you'll have verbal
run-time error messages besides the original, cryptic error codes.
   I have done some cleaning of the old units by omitting some of
the older routines which have a more efficient later replacement. In
particular this concerns the functions for converting values from
one base to another.
   There are also new routines:
  PARSENFN Number of substrings in a string (resembles ParamCount)
  PARSERFN Get substrings from a string (resembles ParamStr)
  FATSFN   Get number of file allocation tables, not XTs
  INTERLFN Get interleave coefficient of a harddisk, not XTs
  LASTDRFN Get last drive of the system, softcoded, not XTs
and the generic power function POWERGFN has been rewritten.

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Prof. Timo Salmi        (Moderating at anon. ftp site 128.214.12.3)
School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland
Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun