Archive-name: pascal/borland-minifaq
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This is the comp.lang.pascal.borland Mini-FAQ, maintained by Tom Wheeley
mailto:t...@tsys.demon.co.uk.
What's New? (New bits are marked with a '|' at the line beginning)
+ FAQ regarding versions of BP and TP
+ Submitting material to SWAG
+ New location of Jon Shemitz's FAQ.
+ FAQ of the week
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FAQ of the moment [tm]
"2000 is a Leap Year : see http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/RGO/leaflets/ ..."
Leap := (Yr mod 4 = 0) xor (Yr mod 100 = 0) xor (Yr mod 400 = 0) ;
1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, and 2200 are not leap years. But 1600,
2000, and 2400 are leap years. 1996 (as witnessed) is a leap year.
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Contents:
1 What is comp.lang.pascal.borland?
1.1 History of the Group
1.2 Posting Guidelines
2 Where can I find {more?} Information?
2.1 FAQs (about pascal)
2.2 FTP sites
2.3 WWW sites
2.4 Notable sources of information
2.5 Uploading your masterpieces to an FTP site or SWAG
3 Frequently Asked Questions (Not for the pascal language).
*Including*
. How do I make EXE files with Turbo Pascal?
. Is it possible to 'decompile' pascal EXEs or TPUs?
. What is the difference between BP, TP and TP for Windows?
APPENDIX A - FTP site mirrors
APPENDIX B - Credits
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1. What is comp.lang.pascal.borland?
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This is the group for discussion on Borland Pascal, Turbo Pascal and
Pascal for windows systems. All users are welcome, and this group is
not moderated. In order to keep usenet confusion down, we request that
you post only questions or discussions concerning pascal on the Borland
Pascal compilers. Please note that the Delphi does not really belong in
this group, seeing as there are three other groups for Delphi discussion
news:comp.lang.pascal.delphi.components
news:comp.lang.pascal.delphi.databases
news:comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc
There are also the following pascal groups:
news:comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso
news:comp.lang.pascal.mac
news:comp.lang.pascal.misc
And the Turbovision group described as "Borland's text application
libraries." It is C-biased, but Pascal does get a look-in:
news:comp.os.msdos.programmer.turbovision
Prof. Timo Salmi posts a FAQ regarding the newsgroup reorganization
weekly. It is also available from garbo (see 'FTP sites')
Important: *+* Please do not post to the obsolete comp.lang.pascal *+*
* History of the Group
This group was created by popular vote on June 12, 1995.
Information on the group is available from:
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/doc-net/pasgroup.zip
* Posting Guidelines
* "A problem well stated is a problem half solved" Charles F. Kettering
* Put as much information as you can early in the subject line.
Subjects like "help me" or "question about Pascal" are silly. Please
also note that some newsreaders truncate the subject line early.
* Usually, it will be sufficient to post to a single one of the Pascal
groups. But if you ever need to post to more than one group, be sure
to use a single cross-posted article rather than multiple postings;
the Newsgroups entry lists the groups, separated by commas.
* Please do not request the answer to your question solely via e-mail!
Someone else will be interested, and it is only polite to the readers
* We will not do your homework for you!
We will, however, give advice on specific topics.
* Be aware of limits. Many newsreaders have difficulty with subject
lines over 40 characters (which get chopped up). Try to keep
your posting text lines to 70 characters or LESS. If you use more,
your posts will look messy when quoted. My excuse is I use Dos Edit.
* Binaries should NOT be posted to this group. Nor MIME Attachments.
(Especially {*word*193} are those mailers which convert '=' to '=3D', a very
bad thing to do to some Pascal source code...)
If you want to distribute binaries or large source files then you could
upload it to one of the FTP sites. See the section 'Uploading your
masterpieces to an FTP site'
If you are wondering *why* binaries are banned, read this:
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqn43.zip
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Q: May I just go ahead and post binaries to discussion newsgroups?
Expressly forbidden is posting of any commercial material, for
example Turbo Pascal 7, or even just GRAPH.TPU. *This is illegal*
Do not even ask for these. Contact Borland if you have a problem.
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2. Where can I find more information?
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* Pascal FAQs:
- The infamous, ubiquitous, mandatory and downright useful
Timo Salmi's 'Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers'
is available at ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip
- Jon Shemitz' comp.lang.pascal FAQ
| http://www.midnightbeach.com/jon/pubs/clp-faq.htm
- Pascal Turbo Vision FAQ
http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/pasfhome.html (see WWW section)
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2.2 FTP sites: See Appendix A for mirrors
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'Garbo' The primary Turbo Pascal source/unit site.
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ {turbopa* directories}
http://garbo.uwasa.fi
'Oulu' Lots of files related to game (and demo?) programming.
ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos/programming/
http://x2ftp.oulu.fi
'SimTel' "The Coast to Coast Software Repository"
ftp://ftp.coast.net/SimTel/turbopas {../info too}
http://www.coast.net/SimTel
'Borland' Borland's Web site
ftp://ftp.borland.com/
http://www.borland.com/index.html
TV site Turbovision source/applications ?
ftp://jam.cog.brown.edu/pub/turbo-vision
These may be referred to by the name in the left hand column, both in
this FAQ, and on the newsgroup. For SimTel and Garbo at least, please
try to use a closer, faster, mirror site. (In Appendix A)
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2.3 WWW sites
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If you have a Web site concentrating on Pascal (esp. Borland), then why
not get it added to the list in the FAQ. Just send the URL and a short
description to me, <URL:mailto:t...@tsys.demon.co.uk>.
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* Turbo Pascal Programmers Page
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~jprins/tp.html
This page is supposed to give a quick overview of what is available
on the net for programmers in Turbo/Borland Pascal.
The page covers:
BGI drivers, Book descriptions, Compilers, Delphi, FAQ's,
FTP sites, Game programming, Genetic programming, Graphics programming,
Information, Manuals, Newsgroups, Numeric programming, Sources,
Sound programming, Turbo Vision, Websearching, Windows programming,
Winsock programming, WWW sites, ZZZ attic
{Jeroen Prins}
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* Scott's Cool Programming Page
http://www.vivanet.com/~scotts/pascal
This page is mainly devoted to the cooler aspects of programming
including sound blaster, cd-rom and graphics. I have articles which are
articles I've either found or written on certain topics and I have a file
formats section and a newgroups section (only has one newgroup in it
right now). Its not entirely pascal, there is some C code in one or two
of the articles but I program in pascal and my articles all have pascal
code in it.
{Scott Serven}
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* TVPlus: Home Page
http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/tvhome.html
This is mainly C-biased, but the Pascal section is accessible from
http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/pasfhome.html
This page contains frequently (and not so frequently) asked Pascal
TurboVision questions with Berend's and other users's answers. Comments,
corrections, and additions are solicited.
{?}
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* Rex K. Perkins Pascal Page
http://www.iii.net/users/rexkp/ppp
This page provides current information on BugSlay, The Pascal Postmortem
De{*word*81}, as well as links to other Pascal related information.
Initially I am focusing on the Borland compilers. If sufficient interest
is shown, along with
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