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pigiron

Delphi Developer
Tue, 09 Apr 2002 03:00:00 GMT

How to convert 16-bit programs to 32-bit ones

Hi, everyone:

   Would anybody be please tell me how to convert 16-bit programs into
   32-bit ones.

   Thanks!!

   LHT

 
Christo Craus

Delphi Developer
Tue, 09 Apr 2002 03:00:00 GMT

Re:How to convert 16-bit programs to 32-bit ones


Get the source code and compile it with a 32bit compiler.

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Christo Crause
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Dept. Chem. Eng.
University of Stellenbosch
South Africa

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pigiron <pigi...@ms21.hinet.net> wrote in message

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> Hi, everyone:

>    Would anybody be please tell me how to convert 16-bit programs into
>    32-bit ones.

>    Thanks!!

>    LHT

Alexander Muelle

Delphi Developer
Tue, 09 Apr 2002 03:00:00 GMT

Re:How to convert 16-bit programs to 32-bit ones


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pigiron wrote:

> Hi, everyone:

>    Would anybody be please tell me how to convert 16-bit programs into
>    32-bit ones.

>    Thanks!!

>    LHT

It would be easier to answer your question if you explain your problem
more detailed. But generally spoken it should not be too difficult to
port a Delphi1 program to 32bit if you dont use special tricks
(accessing the bios etc.).

Alex

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Bruce Robert

Delphi Developer
Tue, 09 Apr 2002 03:00:00 GMT

Re:How to convert 16-bit programs to 32-bit ones


One thing to watch out for, though, is the difference in the size of an
integer (2 bytes vs 4 bytes).

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Alexander Mueller <al...@gmx.at> wrote in message

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> pigiron wrote:

> > Hi, everyone:

> >    Would anybody be please tell me how to convert 16-bit programs into
> >    32-bit ones.

> >    Thanks!!

> >    LHT

> It would be easier to answer your question if you explain your problem
> more detailed. But generally spoken it should not be too difficult to
> port a Delphi1 program to 32bit if you dont use special tricks
> (accessing the bios etc.).

> Alex

> --
> Author of the free Chatsystem PINO!
> Available at http://pino.cjb.net

Alexander Muelle

Delphi Developer
Tue, 09 Apr 2002 03:00:00 GMT

Re:How to convert 16-bit programs to 32-bit ones


Well but this is only important to mention if you do special operations
(like copying integers with a fixed size of 2 bytes) or if you read it
from a file.

Alex
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Sir Spammen

Delphi Developer
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 03:00:00 GMT

Re:How to convert 16-bit programs to 32-bit ones


Tip:
If you poke around in 'string'[0]
(to set the length)

use SETLENGTH() instead.......

T.

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