NCLARKE%DREW.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (02/21/88)
This message is of different parts, one technical, and the other practical...
First the practical one. It appears that I will be teaching Pascal over the
summer, and I'll be needing a book. I'll be using Turbo Pascal 4.0 and so
far as I know there are not any books that use it to the level of detail I
need. The course will be for those who already have some background in
pascal, but don't understand how to apply it to application programs. So,
you see, this book should have a sufficient level of detail beyond the "this
is pascal mentality" of many authors. If anyone knows of any good books on
Turbo 4 please let me know at the address attached to this message.
Now for the fun stuff.
I am converting a somewhat large tp3 program to tp4. The people at Borland
apparently didn't realize how useful the EXECUTE procedure was. I need to be
able to pass total control to another program, NOT a subprogram (that should
silence the masses from yelling "use EXEC!") I've search high and low and
found nothing. Has anyone else run into this problem, and is there a solution
that allows me to simulate this important missing feature?
-Neil
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Neil Clarke NCLARKE@DREW.BITNET
Box 313
Drew University
Madison, NJ 07040
-------------------------------------------------jc58+@andrew.cmu.EDU (Johnny J. Chin) (02/23/88)
Turbo Pascal v4.0 has an Exec Procedure which allows you to do this with no
problems at all. You should be able to execute any DOS command-line command or
program with this procedure. I have used this procedure to run CHKDSK on my
disks and it works fine.
Its documented in then manual. Unfortunately, I don't have it here at this
moment to tell you which pages but I think you could find, it.
By the way, it takes two paramters, one is the path and command to execute,
the other is the parameter to be passed.
I hope this helps.
-- Johnny
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