Hello, everybody!

I have written a small Borland comptatibility package for GNU Pascal on the DJGPP platform. It contains my "BPcompat" Unit, renamed to "System", a (new) "CRT" Unit, and Sven's "BGI2GRX" Unit, renamed to "Graph". There is no "Printer" Unit yet because it caused unexpected problems to write one, but the patched "libgpc.a" allows you to print by assigning a file to "prn", rewriting it, etc.

The package is not portable but a DOS(DJGPP)-only solution, so I do not really recommend to use it for your new projects. However it might be useful for porting existing applications.

It is available in the contrib subdirectory of the GPC distribution, i.e. ftp://kampi.hut.fi/jtv/gnu-pascal/contrib/bpcompat.zip and ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/gnu-pascal/contrib/bpcompat.zip. I am setting up a link from the GNU Pascal home page to it, too.

Have fun,

Peter

e-mail: peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de home address: D"usseldorfer Str. 35, 45145 Essen, Germany WWW: http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~peter/