johnbu@tektronix.UUCP (05/24/84)
On occasion I've tried to use the V1.0 Pascal Compiler on an IBM XT with 2 floppies, 10 Mb hard disk, & 640K RAM. With the hard disk (C:) as the default and the compiler disk in a floppy (A:) I enter the command "A:PAS1 filename" and answer all the questions. Very shortly comes the message "Compiler out of memory, cannot continue" (or some such message), and it dies. When I tried the same thing, but with the other floppy (B:) as the default, it works OK. On my PC at home with 2 floppies, I can set up an E-disk as drive C, make it the default, and it works OK. In summary, then, the problem is that with either a floppy or an E-disk as the default drive it works OK, but apparently it can't find any space left on a hard disk with (at the moment) 2 Mb available. Does anyone have any helpful suggestions for this difficulty? Please! I also understand that there is a patch to the compiler so it can live on the hard disk and be able to find its neseccary files there. Is that part of the above problem? Can anyone tell me what the patch for that is? This is to compile a fairly large program, and there's barely enough room on the floppy for the compiler's working and intermediate files. In addition, PAS2 keeps the drive active for about 10 - 20 minutes as its doing its thing! Any help will be muchly appreciated!!! Thanks, John Burgess
dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (06/01/84)
There are numerous known bugs with the IBM Pascal and FORTRAN compilers
version 1.0. IBM has known of bug fixes for some time but for some reason
refuses to make them generally available.
Your best bet, other than this service, is to harrass your IBM dealer whence
you got the software into calling IBM Boca for you to get the patches.
And don't buy IBM compilers until they show some willingness to fix them and
support them.
D Gary Grady
Duke University Computation Center, Durham, NC 27706
(919) 684-4146
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