nenicola@ndsuvax.UUCP (Steven Nicolai) (09/22/88)
I am looking for Pascal compilers for a xenix based system. Some friends of mine have a large system consisting of about 300 pascal programs that they are looking at moving to xenix from MS-DOS. The programs are written in Turbo Pascal 3.0, but use none of the Pascal I/O, this is done through calls to a C library. The programs don't use many of the features supported by Turbo. The programs are also compilable on the Macintosh with MPW. The biggest extensions to Pascal that are needed are: 1. The ability to take the address of a variable. (This is used to comunicate with the C library) 2. ANSI strings, strings as arrays of CHAR won't do. If you know of a Pascal compiler that might fit this bill, please email me. Steve -- --------------- Steve Nicolai USMAIL: 1717 40th St SW Apt 106 ARPA & UUCP: nenicola@plains.NoDak Fargo, ND 58103 BITNET: nenicola@ndsuvax (701)-281-1230
jbayer@ispi.UUCP (id for use with uunet/usenet) (09/25/88)
In article <1343@ndsuvax.UUCP>, nenicola@ndsuvax.UUCP (Steven Nicolai) writes: > I am looking for Pascal compilers for a xenix based system. Some > friends of mine have a large system consisting of about 300 pascal > programs that they are looking at moving to xenix from MS-DOS. > > The biggest extensions to Pascal that are needed are: > > 1. The ability to take the address of a variable. (This is > used to comunicate with the C library) > > 2. ANSI strings, strings as arrays of CHAR won't do. Look at the Microsoft Pascal compiler. It is compatable at the source level with the same compiler on dos. It has both of the extensions you want (the strings are called "lstring"s), and is fairly bug-free. We have been using both versions (DOS and Xenix) for a few years now with very few problems. Jonathan Bayer Intelligent Software Products, Inc.