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- This Tutorial was written for the PC and so, of course, much of it is
- PC specific, which is true of almost all work published on the
- subject. However Pascal is supposed to be a 'portable' language and so
- although some of the example programs may not actually compile or run
- on the Archimedes, the basic language syntax is identical.
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- There is one major difference. The examples on this disc were intended
- to be used with Borlands 'Turbo Pascal'. For serious work on the PC
- there really isn't any alternative. (I wish someone at Acorn would
- take a look at Borlands compilers. They are about four times as good
- as theirs at about a quarter the price!). One special feature of Turbo
- Pascal is that it has support for strings, which is not present in
- standard Pascal. If you want to make your programs portable you will
- therfore need to be careful not to use the String functions.
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- Some of the files which are mentioned in the text for printing and
- displaying the text have been omited because they are not necessary on
- the Archimedes
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- One of the reasons that I included this disc in the A.P.D.L. library
- is because Acorn have just released their DDE Pascal compiler as PD.
- This means that anyone who has a DDE 'C' compiler can now find out how
- much nicer Pascal is for the price of a disc!
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- The trouble is that there is no documentation with DDE Pascal.
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- If you don't actually have a Pascal compiler but want to try it out
- without paying the obscene price that Acorn ask for their DDE 'C'
- package then I can recommend the PC Shareware compiler Surpas Pascal
- on disk P206 which will run under the PC Emulator.
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- You will also find some discs with various Library routines for Pascal
- in the PC section of the catalogue
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- The files in the 'Bin' directory are compiled example files which must
- of course be run on a PC or under the PC Emulator.
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- Please remember that this work is SHARWARE and don't forget to
- send some money if you find it useful.
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- David Holden
- A.P.D.L.
- 39 Knighton Park Road
- Sydenham
- London SE26 5RN
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- 081 778 2659
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