BO5

19 Dec 1995


      Hello, world!


        This is an announcement of a new library for GNU Pascal:

          BO5

        It is only a pre-alpha release (version 0.01), but it should
        give you

          - some Borland-like tools such as Assign, FillChar, ParamStr,
            GetEnv, Random,
          - direct keyboard access via KeyPressed and ReadKey function,
          - direct screen access with colors.

        You need turbo-1.1-gpc-2.6.3 (i.e. the first bug fix for the 
        GPC with Borland extensions, released together with BO5 on
        19. December 1995) to compile BO5.

        BO5 is intended to run on *all* platforms on which GPC runs.
        If not, or if you have some other comment/suggestion/bug report,
        please write to

          pege@mail.theo-phys.uni-essen.de

        If your comment is of general interest for all GPC users, you
        should better write to the gpc-list

          gpc@hut.fi

        I have uploaded BO5 to kampi.hut.fi and to ftp.uni-augsburg.de.
        In Augsburg, it can already be downloaded from

          /pub/gnu/gnu-pascal/turbo-alpha

        For more information, please read the files README.BO5 and
        README.001.


        Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

        Yours,

            Peter

BO5

Peter Gerwinski