taylorj@byuvax.bitnet (01/09/88)
Turbo Power software makes Overlay Manager 4.0, which allows overlays with
Turbo Pascal 4.0. I ordered a copy direct from Turbo Power, and since I
already had purchased their Turbo Extender package, they sold Overlay Manager
as an updgrade for only $25.
I've been using the program for a few weeks now and like it a lot except
for a few things. The package consists of 2 parts, the overlay manager
unit that your program "uses" and a post processor that reads your compiled
code, the map file, and an overlay specification file and creates a new
EXE file with overlays. Your code will run normally before being run through
the post processor, so you don't have to run it every time.
Basically, you can put any number of units into overlay groups. There can
be more than one overlay group. All the units in an overlay group overlay
each other (which means you can't split up units which are large or
interdependent and have them not overlay each other--this is my major
complaint).
The package also allows you to chain programs, similar to what you could
do with TP 3.0.
Jim Taylor
Microcomputer Support for Curriculum, Brigham Young University
taylorj@byuvax.bitnet
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