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Subject: Re: need alternate-editor patch for turbo pascal TURBO.COM
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Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 16:36:17 EDT
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#In article <16597@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>, rrodrigu@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Russ
#driguez) writes:
#> Hello Netlanders:
#>
#>       I'm hoping that others have been dissatisfied with the Turbo
#> Pascal editor and its command-modification feature to come up with a
#> patch to invoke some other resident editor, such as microemacs or
#> epsilon. If such an animal exists, posting it in comp.lang.pascal would
#> probably benefit many of us pascal programmers.
#>
#> My infinite "Thank-You" 's ,
#>
#> Russell Rodriguez
#>
#
#While this might be a nice idea, there's no way to implement it in
#practice.  The best that can be done is to disable the editor, so
#that the system exits to DOS instead of running the editor.  Turbo
#4.0 should be a bit different (more on the lines of Turbo BASIC and
#TPROLOG), but I doubt it will have the ability to invoke a custom
#editor.
#
#Archer Sully
#archer@sig.com
#{ucbvax,sun,ames,pyramid,decwrl}!sgi!archer
#
#PS. any mention of TPascal 4.0 should be treated only as a vicious
#    rumor.

Actually, the best way to call a compiler is from the command line.  The
Turbo approach of providing a small but fast and complete editing/compiling
environment made sense when it came out, but no longer does.  I think
Borland agrees, since the recently Turbo Pascal 4.0 includes a DOS command
line interface.  However, some of us aren't willing to pay to upgrade charge
just for that one feature (the upgrade is almost as much as I paid for Turbo
3.01 w/ 8087 and BCD in the first place!) and don't need any of the other new
features.
  
Does anyone know of a patch to 3.01 that would allow command line compiles?
Then I could invoke the compiler from within BRIEF 2.0 or use a MAKE-likebooks are