Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zephyr!tektronix!percival!parsely!bucket!leonard
From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: TP4 Editor Toolbox
Message-ID: <1447@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 89 04:30:00 GMT
References: <2716@ndsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
Lines: 28

In article <2716@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncperson@ndsuvax.UUCP (Brett Person) writes:
<
<I need some info.  I have the Editor Toolbox for Turbo Pascal 4.0, as well
<as Turbo 4.0.  I tried to compile the various editors on 640K zenith machine.
<None would run.  Most of the time, they locked the machine so solid that the
<three fingered salute didn't work.  Then I compiled them on a true blue IBM 
<PC.  Worked fine. 
<
<My question:  What's different about the two machines that TP couldn't
<compile on the Zenith, but could on the IBM?  The Turbo configurations are
<identical.  The config.sys files are identical.  The autoexec.bat files are
<identical except for the program to set the date/time from a date/time card.
<
<Any ideas?

Many of the older Zenith machines are compatible at the _DOS_ level, but
not at the _BIOS_ level. Bios compatibility is *required* by TP4 and
TP5. 

If you can rewrite the code to avoid using the CRT unit, you may be able
to compile it. As a last resort, you can buy the source to the TP5 
libraries (for $150) and rewrite them to work with your machine. 

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