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From: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: TML pascal II (update)
Message-ID: <4317@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 28 Sep 89 01:15:16 GMT
References: <4Z8GL=G00Ws1A0ukZf@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA. USA
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In article <4Z8GL=G00Ws1A0ukZf@andrew.cmu.edu> sk2f+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Seth D. Kadesh") writes:
> Just called the people at TML yesterday.  Very nice response from them.
> Pascal II started shipping the 15 of September.  Apparently they
>haven't been able to fix all of the bugs yet, so in about two weeks,
>they will be sending everyone a free update.  This may happen twice -
>they said something about problems with the system disk,

I got TML Pascal II last weekend...pretty spiffy!  Overall it appears MUCH
faster than before.  The editor is quicker on its feet, though the way it
updates is sort of funny sometimes.  Although I have not tried it myself, the
editor can also use a different font.  As you delete/insert move text around,
idents are shifted around before your eyes very quickly.  The Resource Editor
is as wonderful as everyone said.  You can choose a particular button or
checkbox and plop 'em right in your window.  Neat.  

TML Pascal II supports "Textbook Graphics Applications", which is sort of like
the plain vanilla text applications supported by v1.0.  You can turn this on
just by putting a procedure call "graphics (mode);" (where mode can be 320 or
640) in the beginning of your procedure.  By adding another line or so in the
USES declaration, you can use all the QuickDraw calls.  It's easy!  -- 
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