rtg@uvacs.UUCP (09/29/84)
I have figured out the patch to Turbo Pascal to load the error file automatically for CPM-86 version. The credit goes to the person who gave the solution to the Z80 version several weeks ago. The Prompt 'Include Error Messages' ended at 24AF. At locations 24B3 and 24B4, replace these bytes with 00 and Turbo will no longer wait for a Y/N and load the "K error file automatically. What a relief!
Lee.Sailer@CMU-CS-C.ARPA (01/13/85)
So far, except for Kahn's assurance that it is really simple, it seems that
nobody is willing to admit that they know how it works. Here is a new, simpler
question:
1. Is anybody out there trying to figure out how Turbo "does it"?
2. Is anybody debating what it could do better, so that version x
will be even spiffier?
Here are a few of my own (somehat trivial) wishes.
- A stand-alone version of the editor/run-time system. TRUE FACT. I use
Turbo as my editor when writing in C. ("Why?" is a lng story.)
- A utility that will strip out totally unused parts of .COM files.
if, for example, Turbo loads all the trig functions into every .COM
file, could a utility dtect that they were never used, and squeeze them
out?
- Turbo's random number generator is not so hot. In paticular, it cannot
be started from a particular seed. Patches?
- Could Turbo be patched to add a "true" complex type, and thereby save us
all from those letters in BYTE that say "Real men use FORTRAN!"
Of Course! First, someone (not me, sorry, I don't even know assembler) will
have to figure out how Turbo is possible, period.
thanks for listening
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