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From: NCLARKE%DREW.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Two subj- TP4 books, and the missing Execute procedure
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Date: 21 Feb 88 06:15:01 GMT
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This message is of different parts, one technical, and the other practical...

First the practical one.  It appears that I will be teaching Pascal over the
summer, and I'll be needing a book.  I'll be using Turbo Pascal 4.0 and so
far as I know there are not any books that use it to the level of detail I
need.  The course will be for those who already have some background in
pascal, but don't understand how to apply it to application programs.  So,
you see, this book should have a sufficient level of detail beyond the "this
is pascal mentality" of many authors.  If anyone knows of any good books on
Turbo 4 please let me know at the address attached to this message.

Now for the fun stuff.

I am converting a somewhat large tp3 program to tp4.  The people at Borland
apparently didn't realize how useful the EXECUTE procedure was.  I need to be
able to pass total control to another program, NOT a subprogram (that should
silence the masses from yelling "use EXEC!")  I've search high and low and
found nothing.  Has anyone else run into this problem, and is there a solution
that allows me to simulate this important missing feature?

     -Neil

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Neil Clarke                  NCLARKE@DREW.BITNET
Box 313
Drew University
Madison, NJ  07040
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