Hello, Peter Gerwinski! You wrote:
Hello!
GPC binaries for OS/2 and DOS (i.e. for EMX) and for Linux can be downloaded from
kampi.hut.fi
directory
/jtv/gnu-pascal/binary/turbo-alpha-2.6.3
Thanks. I did download that version, but then could not figure out how to extract it (got confused with gzip, compress, tar, and everything else and then got totally lost, because I wasn't even sure any more whether I had downloaded the correct thing or not). The readme file did not actually explain how someone from a DOS/Win/OS2 background would go about extracting the files, and perhaps a version which is compressed with PKZIP might be a good idea, since that would be accessible to practically everybody.
A further question - does this require GCC to be installed? or is the package self-contained as it is? If and when I manage to get the whole thing working, I might try and put together a single ZIP file which contains everything to get working immediately (i.e., a fully "ready to run" package) for OS/2 and DOS (and eventually Win32). I think this is a desirable thing to do, if the target audience is to be widened, because nothing is more terrifying than having to compile your own compiler or other things like that (at least, to those of us weaned on DOS Turbo Pascal).
Thanks!
Warmest regards, The Chief --------- Dr. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) Keele University, England (and, The Great Elephant) Email: laa12@keele.ac.uk or, chief@mep.com