6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) (06/13/91)
Am I mistaken or does Turbo Pascal for Windows compile only Windows software??? In other words, will it also compile programs that will run from the DOS prompt?? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ William W. (Boo) Bushing | "Life is too important to be 6500boo@ucsbuxa.bitnet | taken seriously" 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu | - Einstein Marine Biotechnology Lab Univ. of Calif. Santa Barbara ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
oneel@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Bruce Oneel ) (06/13/91)
In article <12064@hub.ucsb.edu> 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) writes:
Am I mistaken or does Turbo Pascal for Windows compile only
Windows software??? In other words, will it also compile
programs that will run from the DOS prompt??
TPW for windows applications, TP 6.0 for DOS applications. If you
need to do both, you have to buy both.
bruce
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Bruce O'Neel oneel@heasfs.gsfc.nasa.gov
NASA/GSFC/STX/Code 664bns@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Chris Dollmont) (06/17/91)
6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) writes: > Am I mistaken or does Turbo Pascal for Windows compile only > Windows software??? In other words, will it also compile > programs that will run from the DOS prompt?? > This is rapidly becoming an FAQ. Turbo Pascal for Windows will _only_ compile Windows applications. It seems that Borland has split the product line, and Turbo Pascal 6.0 is the latest _DOS_ version. If you wish to develop in both environments, you will need _both_ compilers. Chris | Chris Dollmont | USENET: bns@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca | Blue North Software | Mail: 16936D 85th Ave. | | Edmonton, AB T5R 4A3 | These opinions remain valid only as long as they are visible...
dm2368@eecs1.eecs.usma.edu (Fichten Mark CPT) (06/18/91)
> Chris Dollmont <bns@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> writes: > > 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) writes: > > > Am I mistaken or does Turbo Pascal for Windows compile only > > Windows software??? In other words, will it also compile > > programs that will run from the DOS prompt?? > > > This is rapidly becoming an FAQ. Turbo Pascal for Windows will _only_ > compile Windows applications. It seems that Borland has split the > product line, and Turbo Pascal 6.0 is the latest _DOS_ version. If you > wish to develop in both environments, you will need _both_ compilers. > I want to make a comment regarding what Chris said. TPW will only produce EXECUTABLES that will run under Windows. However, it CAN compile code written in the 'DOS' versions of TP if they are very very basic, don't use the DOS TPU and don't do anything but basic screen IO. To do this, Borland has included a TPU called WinCRT. You can take a program written in TP 6 or 5.5, etc. and include WinCRT and it will compile. AGAIN(!), it can't do anything but basic screen IO, etc. This is one way we check our student's code that they write under TP 5.5/6.0. Many of the professors/instructors here run Windows so they just load TPW, load the file, type uses WinCRT; and they compile. Since many of the undergraduates code (primarilly CS105) don't use anything too gee-wiz, they usually compile just fine. ____________________________________________________________________________ CPT Mark Fichten | INTERNET: fichten@eecs1.eecs.usma.edu | Captain U.S. Army | @trotter.edu:dm2368@eecs1.eecs.usma.edu | Work: (914) 938-5580 | USENET: rutgers.edu!trotter!eecs1!dm2368 | Home: (914) 446-8242 | harvard.edu!trotter!eecs1!dm2368 | ____________________________________________________________________________
speedy@vax.oxford.ac.uk (06/19/91)
In article <12064@hub.ucsb.edu>, 6500boo@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (William Bushing) writes: > Am I mistaken or does Turbo Pascal for Windows compile only > Windows software??? In other words, will it also compile > programs that will run from the DOS prompt?? I have been relaibly informed by borland in the UK that it only compiles windows programs--Shame because it is about half the price of the professional version