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From: milne@ics.uci.edu (Alastair Milne)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: old .TPUs under TP5.5???
Keywords: converter?
Message-ID: <25E0E80B.10233@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 90 06:47:39 GMT
References: <19557@mephisto.UUCP>
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>It would appear that Units compiled with previous versions of Turbo Pascal
>do not work with version 5.5.

   In fact, the TPU file starts with a signature that indicates precisely
   which version of Turbo wrote it.  That alone presumably keeps later Turbo's
   from using it.  Whether any other aspect of TPU's differs I couldn't say.
   The signature system was probably installed in case they did.


   Alastair Milne
   U. Calif. Irvine