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From: archer@elysium.SGI.COM (Archer Sully)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: need alternate-editor patch for turbo pascal TURBO.COM
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Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 12:32:35 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 25 12:32:35 1987
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Summary: calling turbo 3.0 from DOS
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> 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-like
> utility.

You mean, you don't want/need separate compilation, and yet you
also want to use make???  chacon a son gout, but this does seem a
mite bit peculiar.  

There was a patch on CompuServe called TURBAT.PAT, or some such silliness
that allowed calling turbo from command lines.  At least, I think that's
what it did, but then again, I may be out to lunch, as usual.

BTW:  Has anyone considered grabbing the archives off CompuServe and
making a USENET accessible archive for them?

Archer Sully
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