Subj : Re: Turbo Pascal 5.0
To   : Nick Andre
From : Scott Adams
Date : Fri Nov 11 2005 07:23 pm

 -=> Quoting Nick Andre to Shawn Highfield <=-

 NA> @MSGID: 1:229/426 00000054
 >> If not, is it possible to write a Winsock interface for Turbo Pascal
 > 5.0?
 
 > I know there are winsock interface's available for Virtual Pascal and
 > Free
 > pascal.  What are the chances DB would port easily to one of those? (Just
 > google for either and you'll find links to winsock's. both are free)
 NA> 
 NA> I just finished tonight migrating DB over from Borland Pascal 5.0 to
 NA> 5.5, without any hitches, but when I tried to move up to 7.0, I run
 NA> into two problems. The first is that theres too many symbols (the
 NA> original author made heavy use of global variables, and changing them
 NA> would require massive retooling), and the other problem is the inline
 NA> assembly language code. Tp7 stops on statements such as: 
 NA> var
 NA> FreeSegofs : Segofs absolute FreePtr;
 NA> ^^^^^^^^
 NA> 
 NA> I'm not really an expert Pascal programmer, but it looks to me like
 NA> TP7 doesn't like the way assembly language code is handled from the
 NA> 5.5 compile. 
 NA> So that is what appears to be the two fundimental problems I'm
 NA> having... DB was written with the TurboPower units to handle ISAM code
 NA> and sharing and a few other things, and theres heavy use of assembly
 NA> language for Zmodem CRC checking and some other functions.   I figured
 NA> if I could get DB to compile under TP7, then moving to Virtual/Free
 NA> pascal should have little to no issues. 

        You go from bp7 to tp5.5?  Wow.  That's a DOWNgrade not a upgrade.
        Surprised you'd have to do this?  Why?


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