Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Lou 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) Lines: 17 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