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From: dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch)
Subject: Re: Using TP5.0 TURBO.TPL with TP6.0
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Date: Wed, 8 May 1991 15:50:03 GMT
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In article <1991May8.124525.11539@e2big.mko.dec.com> granoff@vaxwrk.enet.dec.com (Mark H. Granoff) writes:
>
>At the inroduction of TP6.0 in Boston, during a question and answer period, I
>asked Borland if they ever planned to have any kind of backward compatibility
>for compiled units.  They said, "No."

They do have a kind of backward compatibility:  TP 6.0 units and TPW 1.0 units
have an identical format.  Unfortunately, it's a useless kind of compatibility.

Because TP 6.0 units are partially linked to the TP 6.0 System unit, and
TPW 1.0 units are partially linked to the TPW 1.0 System unit, and there's
no way to unlink or relink them, they are for all practical purposes 
incompatible.

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu
