krausej@stolaf.UUCP (James J. Krause) (10/10/85)
Dave Beyerl (ihuxk!db21) writes: > ...an article was posted that described a > patch to the CP/M versions of Turbo Pascal for bypassing the > include messages prompt.... I was > wondering if anyone has determined if MS-DOS Turbo Pascal, ver 3, > can be patched in similar fashion.... Yep. I've got the patches for verions 2.0 and 3.0: (XXXX stands for 4 hex digits, whose actual value is not of importance.) Turbo Pascal Version 2.0 ------------------------ A>DEBUG TURBO.COM -A 29ED XXXX:29ED MOV BYTE PTR [023D],0B XXXX:29F2 NOP XXXX:29F3 NOP XXXX:29F4 NOP XXXX:29F5 <ENTER> -W -Q Turbo Pascal Version 3.0 ------------------------ A>DEBUG TURBO.COM -A 2EB7 XXXX:2EB7 MOV BYTE PTR [0348],0B XXXX:2EBC NOP XXXX:2EBD NOP XXXX:2EBE NOP XXXX:2EBF <ENTER> -W -Q Note that these patches will always _include_ the error messages file. I'm not sure of the alterations required to _not_ include them. I've double- and triple-checked for typos, but of course, don't do this to your only copy of Turbo. I've used the patch for version 3 on the PC-DOS & Compat. release of Turbo, and it works; I haven't had the occasion to try out the v. 2 patch, but it's from the same source (PC Magazine, August 6, 1985, p. 217). James (...!ihnp4!stolaf!krausej)