Announcement: Borland extensions for GPC_(re)

Wed, 8 Nov 1995 16:35:15 -0500 (EST)

On Tue, 7 Nov 1995, Peter Gerwinski wrote:

> > 	'Tho I wish somebody would finish up the Extended Pascal portions 
> > of GPC.  I'm trying to steer myself away for using the Borland "standard" 
> > (or non-standard ...).  
> I think that for many applications you actually *need* the Borland 
> "non-standard".  For example, for lo-level programming you need a 
> bitwise "and" and a bit-shift operator for integers.  Moreover, I feel

	Hmm ... Extended Pascal doesn't have this then?  BTW - does 
anybody know if the Extended Pascal specs have been posted yet?  Somebody 
up on comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso said he was gonna do it .. I'm wondering 
if he did it yet.

> I don't know of an explicit Linux version at kampi.hut.fi, but GPC
> compiles straightforwardly under Linux.  Nevertheless, I have
> archives with ready-to-run binaries for EMX (DOS and OS/2) as well
> as for Linux.  Shall I upload them?

	I'm sure a bunch of OS/2 users would thank you for it if you did 
upload it.  I know I would.  Just be sure to drop a note in the OS/2 
programmer newsgroups.


Arcadio

Arcadio Alivio Sincero (lotu@wam.umd.edu)