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From: jfjr@mitre-bedford.arpa
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Outside compile?
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Date: Wed, 7-Oct-87 10:47:50 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct  7 10:47:50 1987
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 I think I just answered this. I used a patch I got from compuserv last year
to modify Turbo Pascal so that it would read commands from standard input.
The improvements I made were to make the compiler exit on error
rather than go to the editor. I don't have the patches anymore. I lost
my copies. If you are REALLY desparate I can get them or point you where
to get them (the ones I did which include the original)
- the original is on compuserv). 

 Turbo Pascal uses int 16 to read the keyboard. What you want is to replace
the int 16 calls with int 21 calls. The patch I used allowed me to call
Turbo Pascal from a batch file. There was no modification of command
parsing in the patchso since Turbo does not wait for a carriage 
return to read the character the commands to compile the 
program in the batch file area concatenation of the commands 
you would normally enter from the keyboard. I haven't used
turbo in a while so this is not exact but meant to give the flavor
of what the command file would contain

.REM
YNNsomeprog.pasQ
.REM

The YNN and Q at the end are answers the questions the compiler asks
If this is what you want and all that you want then
The source of this patch is Compuserve and I got it in the spring
of '86



                                            Jerry Freedman, Jr