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From: billkatt@sol.engin.umich.edu (Steven James Bollinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Lightspeed Pascal
Keywords: Lightspeed Pascal Symantec THINK
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Date: 8 Nov 88 01:40:00 GMT
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Reply-To: billkatt@sol.engin.umich.edu (Steven James Bollinger)
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	I and a friend were working on a color version of ShowINIT.  After
posting an earlier flame about GetCIcon's problems, someone steered us
towards a revision by Paul Mercer posted on AppleLink.  I had a friend bring
it down for me and I assembled it under MPW.  After an uneventful assembly I
exited MPW and tried to run '.o convert', a program which would convert the
'.o' file produced by MPW into a library for use in LightSpeed Pascal (v1.11).
Much to my surprise, instead of a library, I garnered an error message.
'Files which contain computed references can not be converted.'  this surprised
me because the Black and White version had converted succesfully.  The color
version DOES convert to a Library in THINK C 3.01 (using the equivalent
converter).  I used the most recent version of the Pascal converter that 
exists (to my knowledge), version 1.1.
	It really surprises me that I continue to stick with a company which
constantly hangs its Pascal customers out to dry in favor of c programmers.
It isn't that c programmers aren't deserving, but they have had many more
updates than LS Pascal has.  I suppose this will be rectified in LS Pascal
2.0, but I have long since given up belief in its existence.  Besides, good
intentions (LS Pascal 2.0) don't go as far as product (a working converter).

I'm just about fed up with all this.

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