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From: dahosek@biivax.dp.beckman.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: GDDM routines to PASCALVS at CMS
Message-ID: <1991May14.105341.299@biivax.dp.beckman.com>
Date: 14 May 91 17:53:41 GMT
References: <26858@adm.brl.mil>
Organization: Beckman Instruments, Inc.
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In article <26858@adm.brl.mil>, GRAD205%BRFUEM.BITNET@uicvm.uic.edu ( Humberto Jose' Bortolossi) writes:
> Greetings ...
 
> Someone told me that it's impossible to call GDDM routines from a PASCALVS
> program running under CMS. However, I think that is possible to build this
> routines in REXX and call them from PASCALVS  using  a CMS procedure  that
> calls CMS commands and programs. Does anybody have  some  experience  with
> this kind of problem? Is there some public domain programs to solve it?
 
They lied. I have a PASCGDDM MACLIB which I updated from one that
was developed at a computer center where I used to work which
allows VS/Pascal/VS (depending on which version is where the VS
goes ;-) to call GDDM routines. I don't have regular VM access
anymore so I can't recall exactly how they were set up, but it
was fairly straightforward (declare the functions/procedures to
be FORTRAN and be careful about how arguments are passed).
Linking is just a matter of doing the appropriate GLOBAL TXTLIB
commands.

I will note that calling GDDM from Pascal is not _supported_ by
IBM.

-dh

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