Re: pascal for linux

[Steve Lamb <morpheus@rpglink.com>]

Wednesday, September 01, 1999, 12:42:19 PM, Kenneth wrote:

> I was looking at porting a pascal program from dos to linux.  Besides
> having to write a device driver (as it twiddles the printer port
> directly) I would have to fix all references to the Borland runtime lib
> stuff.

    Take a look at FPC then.

http://www.brain.uni-freiburg.de/~klaus/fpc/fpc.html

    Of the two, GPC and FPC, I much prefer FPC as it is written in Pascal and
tries to comply as much as possible with Borland's implementation.

> Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or .....

    I did see a New Hampshire license plate today.  Laughed my butt off
remembering the Carlin skit surrounding it.

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