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From: shurr@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Microsoft Pascal : Why does it still exis
Summary: command line versions of Turbo compilers not PC-specific
Message-ID: <3804@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 6 Feb 89 18:35:42 GMT
References: <2529@nunki.usc.edu> <14238@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr)
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In article <14238@cup.portal.com> A-N-Onymouse@cup.portal.com (John - DeBert) writes:
>In article <2529@nunki.usc.edu> sawant@nunki.usc.edu writes:
[Why Microsoft Pascal?]
>Hopfully each version of MS Pascal will work on all MS-DOS machines? Turbo
>Pascal cannot but works only on IBM PC's & 100% compatibles. TP resolutely
>refuses to cooperate on my HP-150 running MS-DOS. I'm glad that there is
>*something* that will run on any MS-DOS machine. 

>There are a lot of MS-DOS machines that are not IBM compatible. (Yes there
>really are!) They've got to have something to do.

The command line versions should work fine on your machine as long as you
avoid calling in any PC-specific units (not even Turbo3).  Both versions
4 and 5 have worked fine on my TI Pro.  Version 3.01A would not work until
I patched it, though many IBM PC-specific features would not work even then
(more work needed, but I had what I was after).  Still, it would be nice
to be able to use the integrated environment and the debugger - I guess
I'll have to get an IBM PC, anyway (donations welcome).

regards, Larry
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