NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #26/NN_1992_26.iso/spool/comp/lang/pascal/6356

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From: [e-mail] (Duncan Murdoch)
Subject: Re: What we need is a TPU to PAS convertor (Re: tpu files)
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:56:31 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Jim Nicholson) writes:
>Anyway, the original post was in error; what's needed is not a TPU
>disassembler.  What we need is to force Borland to either stabilize the TPU
>definition (make it release independent), publish the interface with each
>release (making TPU upgrader programs easier to write), or provide their own
>upgrade utility.

None of those would help.  The interface definition has been published for
TP 6 for at least a year now (see TWU1.ZIP on garbo for the most up to date
version).   I believe the same author published the description for 5.5
before that.  Certainly I've distributed source code that uses the .TPU
format for all versions of TP from 4.0 onwards (see INTRFCxx.ZIP on
garbo).  However, there are technical reasons why an upgrade utility would
probably be unreliable - see my earlier post on this.

A reliable solution that Borland could implement would be a compiler option
to produce .OBJ output instead of .TPU output. If you want Borland to do
this, start buying compilers that do it instead of Borland compilers.  Stony
Brook's, for instance.  Borland is market driven.  If they sell just as many
compilers without that option, why put it in?

Duncan Murdoch
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