Borland compatibility package

Sat, 25 Jan 1997 15:14:05 +0100 (MET)

Hello, everybody!

I have written a small Borland comptatibility package for GNU Pascal 
on the DJGPP platform.  It contains my "BPcompat" Unit, renamed to
"System", a (new) "CRT" Unit, and Sven's "BGI2GRX" Unit, renamed to
"Graph".  There is no "Printer" Unit yet because it caused unexpected
problems to write one, but the patched "libgpc.a" allows you to print
by assigning a file to "prn", rewriting it, etc.

The package is not portable but a DOS(DJGPP)-only solution, so I do not
really recommend to use it for your new projects.  However it might be
useful for porting existing applications.

It is available in the contrib subdirectory of the GPC distribution,
i.e. ftp://kampi.hut.fi/jtv/gnu-pascal/contrib/bpcompat.zip and
ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/contrib/bpcompat.zip.
I am setting up a link from the GNU Pascal home page to it, too.

Have fun,

    Peter

      e-mail:  peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de
home address:  D\"usseldorfer Str. 35, 45145 Essen, Germany
         WWW:  http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~peter/


Peter Gerwinski (peter@agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de)