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From: Lou@cup.portal.com (William Joseph Marriott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Borland Support
Message-ID: <12123@cup.portal.com>
Date: 4 Dec 88 13:30:52 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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I must agree that Borland is a good company to deal with, however, there is
a problem with Borland and Mac products.

As David Zuhn mentioned, Turbo Pascal 1.1 does not fully meet the requirements
of Inside Macintosh. In other wyas, Turbo Pascal is behind the times. Cursor
keys are still not supported; The Hierarchical filing system is supported, but
the program doesn't take full advantage of it in its own functions. 

Programmers have to hack at the program to write HyperCard XCMDs and XFCNs, an
aven after the hacks, it is still a bit awkward to tweak them afterward to 
have proper IDs and such.

MacWEEK reported that Borland was having quite a few problems with its Mac
products and was thinking of dumping them. Notice, Turbo Pascal 1.1 is now
more than a year old, no more updates have been made.

I think Turbo is best for what _I_ bought if for originally: I had a one-drive