good book on Pascal

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Oct 22 18:44:00 2002

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> Hi Fred
> I'm not sure if this will help much because it was obviously
> cross compiled to run on a Z8000. Here is what prints out:
>
> Olivetti M20 Professional Computer Pascal Compiler Version 1.2
>
> There is a file listing some of the library references that
> mentions that it is MS-Pascal. There is a librarian called
> mlib.cmd.
> You know, I'd only ask about weird things.

Ahhh
I should have known. IIRC, the IBM/MS FORTRAN had an odd restriction that
it could not handle any variable names that were 6 characters long, ending
in QQ

Unfortunately, I can no longer ask Bob Wallace about MS Pascal stuff.


> I fear this may be similar. It takes 3 disk of code, just to run
> the Pascal compiler ( 280K disk ). If this is any indication, I'd
> suspect the final code isn't all that swift. I just want to play
> with it a little.

It should work for that.
Received on Tue Oct 22 2002 - 18:44:00 BST