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From: mhg@mitre-bedford.arpa (Mark H. Granoff)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Loss of the external statement in TP 4.0
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Date: Wed, 18-Nov-87 08:10:16 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 18 08:10:16 1987
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>    I have noticed several people mention that the external statement has been
>removed from Turbo Pascal 4.0.  The project I worked on last summer (Statpad)
>used Turbo Pascal 3.1 and an external graphics library by Metagraphics.  Their
>graphics used a memory resident graphics driver and set of include files that
>declared all their routines as external.  Does anybody know if they will be
>any easy work around to get past this problem or should I start talking to
>Metagraphics people about an upgrade.

I would say (and this is only an educated guess) that any TP code (3.x
or lower, naturally) written with external references or with someone
elses code (e.g.  Blaise Computing's Turbo Power Tools, etc.) will have
to be rewritten.  I suggest that you contact Metagraphics for an
upgrade or an "approved" work-around.

Hope this helps.

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