Re^5: Legal Change in GPC ?

Fri, 2 May 1997 03:01:52 +0200 (MET DST)

According to Christian Wendt:
> 
> PG>The same stuff as in Borland's CRT, isn't it?
> Hmm. no - several stuff.
> move;
> declaration of byte...
> paramstr,paramcount
> (the date is 27.10.96) - seems to be an extract of tools/system.pas of BO5

We are speaking of different Units:  You mean `bpcompat.pas' while
I am speaking of `bpcompat.zip' which contains `system.pas', `crt.pas',
etc.

> hmm. is the type of "file" specified in the ISO /Extended?

You mean the internal structure of the `file' type?  No.

> would it be possible to define it similar to TP/BP?
> there's a list of procedures inwith the file "record" - they specify the  
> functions to init/flush/writebuffer/readbuffer (theoretical you could do  
> the same with an object...)

It's defined in a quite different way.  The record contains a lot of
interesting information about the file, but no `hooks'.  The actual
input/output is done via `ordinary' functions written in C.

But be invited to implement those `hooks' in the GPC RTS.

> PG>Of course.  But a CRT Unit could use these sequences to access the
> PG>terminal in a portable way.
> Yes... transparent for the programmer...

Everything is transparent for the programmer since you have the
source code of everything. :-)

    Peter

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