Hi all,

I just thought we ought to get some definitions out of the way regarding Delphi.

1) Delphi Development tool IDE) and compiler/linker/interactive debugger. Strictly NOT platform independant. Only implemented OS (if you could call it that :^) is the group of Windows OSs. (Although I did read that there is an IBM AS400 version of Delphi (hmmm... interesting!))

2) Object Pascal A superset of Borland Pascal. The language that is compiled by the Delphi compiler. Through the utilization of the VCL, the Delphi IDE is partialy built on Delphi. This version of pascal is not standard but seems to be an extension of ISO 7185.

3) VCL (Visual Component Library) Library that is both linkable into an executable and dynamicaly used by the Delphi IDE. It is written in Object Pascal.

If anyone is interested, I could go a bit further and elaborate, but alas, I am behind on my ncurses/GPC programming!

Later... Ken L. kc7rad@vegasnet.net klinder@hn.com