Xref: utzoo comp.sys.dec.micro:112 comp.lang.pascal:499 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ptsfa!ames!husc6!bbn!rochester!ritcv!iav1917 From: iav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro,comp.lang.pascal Subject: TurboPascal V4.0 Works on the DEC Rainbow Summary: Forget the environment, use the Command Line Compiler (TPC) Message-ID: <27@ritcv.UUCP> Date: 16 Dec 87 02:37:33 GMT Reply-To: iav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik) Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY Lines: 35 For any of you who still have a Rainbow and wonder if TP4 will run... It will! No problems. You don't even have to put the TPC compiler in /Q (quiet) mode. I've been using the compiler for about 2 weeks and there's been no problem (except using a few functions like DELAY which exist in the CRT unit...using the CRT unit can hang the program you write because it's expecting a different terminal environment...Solution: rewrite some of the conflicting routines.) BTW, Borland says IT WON'T WORK on the Rainbow. They lied. They don't care, it appears. If it doesn't say PC or PS/2 it doesn't exist to Borland. Of course, they probably mean the integrated environment compiler won't work. Maybe yes, maybe no. I have to try to configure the TURBO compiler for monochrome and no colors through TINST. I am sure it'll run under CodeBlue on the Rainbow then. But, after using the environment on the PC.... Stick with the command-line version. "Real programmers don't use environments...." (NO FLAMES! It's just a joke, maybe...) Enjoy, Alan Alan I. Vymetalik @ {allegra,seismo}!rochester!ritcv!iav1917 ----------------------------------+---------------------------------- J.A.M, Inc. | Prism Software Designs 300 Main Street | 44 Arborwood Crescent East Rochester, New York, 14445 | Rochester, New York, 14615-3807 | 1-716-458-4932 ----------------------------------+---------------------------------- DISCLAIMER: The above statements and opinions belong to the author. Any resemblence to statements found in actual reality is purely coin- cidental. And, as always, the above opinions have absolutely nothing to do with the little, fat man putting $100 bills in my pocket. ---------------------------------------------------------------------