mark@siva.UUCP (Mark Marsh) (12/04/89)
I have recently purchaced TURBO Pascal 5.5 and find an annoying 'feature'
to their .exe files (I think). This involves two programs --
1) MKS sh (a DOS version on the popular *nix shell - very nice!)
2) The compiled output of TURBO Pascal
The facts as I know them:
1) executables compiled by TURBO execute under command.com
2) executables compiled by TURBO _do_not_ execute under sh
3) sh will execute any other .com .exe and .bat files (including the
including the executables in the TURBO distribution!!??)
My questions:
1) Why is this?
2) Is there known way to get these programs to run under sh (i.e. a compiler
switch, etc.)?
My defence:
Why yes, I have RTFM -- I found nothing.
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mark@siva -or- {ames!pacbell!sactoh0}||{ucbvax!ucdavis!csusac!unify}!siva!markleonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) (12/10/89)
mark@siva.UUCP (Mark Marsh) writes: >I have recently purchaced TURBO Pascal 5.5 and find an annoying 'feature' >to their .exe files (I think). This involves two programs -- > 1) MKS sh (a DOS version on the popular *nix shell - very nice!) > 2) The compiled output of TURBO Pascal >The facts as I know them: >1) executables compiled by TURBO execute under command.com >2) executables compiled by TURBO _do_not_ execute under sh Could you be a bit more specific? "do not execute" doesn't tell me much. Does the system crash? Do you get an error message? Or do you type the command and the system immediately returns a prompt? >3) sh will execute any other .com .exe and .bat files (including the > including the executables in the TURBO distribution!!??) >My questions: >1) Why is this? I've got no idea, but my best guess is that one of the "built in" units disagrees with sh. Most likely candidates are CRT, DOS, and (God Help you!) SYSTEM. Try writing a short program that doesn't use anything from CRT, and see if it runs. If it does, then you have two alternatives. First, you can buy the source code to the units for $150 from Borland. That would let you patch any problems. Second, you can buy a copy of Turbo Professional and use their replacement for the CRT unit. It comes with source. -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -- Solomon Short