Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix:3436 comp.lang.pascal:1091 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!ucsdhub!esosun!seismo!uunet!ispi!jbayer From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (id for use with uunet/usenet) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.lang.pascal Subject: Re: Pascal Compiler for Xenix Summary: Pascal compilers for Xenix Keywords: XENIX PASCAL COMPILER Message-ID: <194@ispi.UUCP> Date: 25 Sep 88 04:42:08 GMT References: <1343@ndsuvax.UUCP> Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc. Lines: 20 In article <1343@ndsuvax.UUCP>, nenicola@ndsuvax.UUCP (Steven Nicolai) writes: > I am looking for Pascal compilers for a xenix based system. Some > friends of mine have a large system consisting of about 300 pascal > programs that they are looking at moving to xenix from MS-DOS. > > The biggest extensions to Pascal that are needed are: > > 1. The ability to take the address of a variable. (This is > used to comunicate with the C library) > > 2. ANSI strings, strings as arrays of CHAR won't do. Look at the Microsoft Pascal compiler. It is compatable at the source level with the same compiler on dos. It has both of the extensions you want (the strings are called "lstring"s), and is fairly bug-free. We have been using both versions (DOS and Xenix) for a few years now with very few problems. Jonathan Bayer Intelligent Software Products, Inc.