good book on Pascal

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Tue Oct 22 19:44:00 2002

Dwight,

   MS did make Pascal and it did share some utilities and files with Fortran so that's probably what you have. Sorry I can't recommend a book since most of my work was with HP and Turbo Pascal.

   FWIW I went to library sale today and found a IBM BASIC compiler package.

   Joe


At 03:08 PM 10/22/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi
> I'm looking for a good reference book on Pascal.
>I'm looking for something in the 1982 to 1985 time range.
>The Pascal, I have, is said to be MS-Pascal. I didn't know that
>they did a Pascal but it may have been someone elses
>that they OEM'd. I don't think it is Turbo Pascal
>so don't suggest your favorite TP book.
> Of course, it isn't on a x86 machine so there may be
>differences. I am mostly interested in the kind of things
>one would normally find in the object library that one
>would use with this compiler. They mention that it is
>a shared library with MS-FORTRAN. Information on FORTRAN
>libraries might also be useful.
>Thanks
>Dwight
>
>
>
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