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WELCOME TO TURBO PASCAL 6.0
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This README file contains important, last minute information about
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Turbo Pascal 6.0. In addition to this file, there are several .DOC
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files in the \TP\DOC directory that you should browse. The HELPME!.DOC
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file answers many common Technical Support questions. The FIXES.DOC
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file provides corrections to the printed documentation. And the
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TVISION.DOC file gives additional information (reference and tutorial)
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about programming in Turbo Vision.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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1. How to Get Help
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2. Installation
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3. Take a Tour
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4. Turbo Help
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5. New Features
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6. Turbo Vision Examples
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7. Important Documentation Information
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8. Compatibility Notes
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9. Testing Expanded Memory
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10. Complete List of Files
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1. HOW TO GET HELP
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If you have any problems, please read this file, the *.DOC files in
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\TP\DOC, and the Turbo Pascal manuals first. If you still have a
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question and need assistance, help is available from the following
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sources:
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1. Type GO BPROGA on the CompuServe bulletin board system. If you are
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not a member of CompuServe, see the enclosed special offer.
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2. Check with your software dealer or user group.
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3. Write to us:
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Borland International
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Turbo Pascal 6.0 Technical Support
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1800 Green Hills Road
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P.O. Box 660001
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Scotts Valley, CA 95067-0001
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Please include your serial number or we will be unable to process
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your letter.
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4. If you have an urgent problem and you have sent in the license
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agreement that accompanied this package, you may call the Borland
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Technical Support Department at (408) 438-5300. Please have the
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following information ready before calling:
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a. Product name and serial number from the distribution disks.
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b. Product version number. Both the IDE and the command-line
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compiler display a version number when they are executed.
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c. Computer brand, model, and the brands and model numbers of
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any additional hardware.
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d. Operating system and version number. (The version number can
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be determined by typing VER at the DOS prompt.)
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e. Contents of your AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS files.
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2. INSTALLATION
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Use the INSTALL program to install Turbo Pascal. The files on the
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distribution disks are all archived and INSTALL will de-archive them
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for you. INSTALL will place them into subdirectories and automatically
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create configuration files for both the command-line compiler and the
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Integrated Development Environment (IDE). All further references to
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directory paths in this README file assume you've used INSTALL's
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default directory structure.
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To start the installation, place the disk labeled INSTALL in Drive A:,
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change to Drive A: and type A:INSTALL.
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A:
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INSTALL
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INSTALL works on both hard disk and dual-floppy systems. If you decide
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to de-archive files manually, just run the UNZIP program (found on the
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INSTALLATION disk) on any .ZIP file. For example, to de-archive
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TPC.EXE and TURBO.TPL from the TURBO.ZIP file on Drive A:, type:
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unzip a:turbo turbo.tpl tpc.exe
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This places TURBO.TPL and TPC.EXE onto the current drive or directory
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(and assumes UNZIP.EXE is already in the current drive or directory).
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3. TAKE A TOUR
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Take an online tour of the new Integrated Development Environment. Run
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TPTOUR from the \TP directory for a 10-minute introduction to editing,
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compiling and running programs in the new IDE.
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4. TURBO HELP
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The fastest way to get help on any Turbo Pascal feature is to use the
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newly expanded online help system. Pull down the Help menu by typing
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Alt-H and then browse topics (via the Contents menu) or lookup
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identifiers (by selecting Topic search). If it's in Turbo Pascal, it's
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in the help system! And if you use the command-line compiler and your
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own editor, you can still get Turbo Help using THELP.COM. THELP is a
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TSR that can be found in the \TP\UTILS directory.
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5. NEW FEATURES
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Turbo Pascal 6.0 offers many new features, including:
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o Borland's new Integrated Developer's Environment (IDE), our new
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generation user interface that includes all the features you're used
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to, plus:
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o Mouse support.
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o Multiple overlapping windows.
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o Multi-file editor that can edit files up to 1 mbyte in size.
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o Cut, copy and paste using the Clipboard.
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o Turbo online help system that has been expanded, with
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copy-and-paste program examples for practically every function.
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Includes full reference to Turbo Vision objects, methods,
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variables and constants.
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o Conditional breakpoints.
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o CPU Register window.
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o Makes full use of EMS to enhance performance and increase
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capacity.
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o Built-in customization for color and startup options.
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o Turbo Vision, an object-oriented, high-performance application
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framework and library. Programs written in Turbo Vision inherit
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everything from mouse support, dialogs, menus, overlapping windows,
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and automatic desktop management to the online help system,
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calculator, and other tools that you'll find in the \TP\TVDEMOS
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directory.
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Programming with Turbo Vision is so efficient and powerful, we used
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it to build the IDE itself!
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o Built-in, inline assembler. Combine the best of both worlds: write
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assembly language instructions inside your Turbo Pascal programs.
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o Private fields and methods are now supported in an object
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declaration. This enables you to "enforce" encapsulation. Object
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privacy is implemented consistently with the existing data hiding
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capabilities of a unit. See P-87 in the User's Guide and P-35 in the
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Programmer's Guide for more information.
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o Other enhancements include:
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o New Objects unit with better collections and streams.
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o New heap manager is faster and safer.
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o Extended syntax compiler directive {$X} allows you to
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optionally discard function results.
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o New procedure directives: far, near and assembler.
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o 80286 code generation directive {$G}.
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o Minor code generation improvements.
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o Address references in typed constant pointers.
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o Link in initialized data from .OBJs {$L}.
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6. TURBO VISION EXAMPLES
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There are three different kinds of Turbo Vision example programs
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provided. You'll find all the example programs from the Turbo Vision
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Guide in the \TP\DOCDEMOS directory. You'll find several Turbo Vision
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application support units in the \TP\TVISION directory. And you'll
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find several Turbo Vision demonstration programs in the \TP\TVDEMOS
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directory.
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If you're trying to run one of the Turbo Vision demos from inside the
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IDE, we recommend that you set Compile|Destination to disk and the
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Link Buffer option to Disk (in the Options|Linker dialog box). Many of
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these examples are large programs and require full memory capacity to
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compile and run. Depending on your system configuration, you may need
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to compile and run them from DOS. Here's how to use the command-line
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compiler on TVDEMO.PAS:
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cd \tp\tvdemos
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tpc /m tvdemos
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Then run TVDEMO.PAS from DOS by typing:
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tvdemo
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In order to facilitate compiling these demos on a wide variety of
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system configurations, we've turned off debug information {$D-} in all
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Turbo Vision units. If you have a system with lots of memory and EMS,
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you might want to enable the {$D} compiler directive in selected units
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in \TP\TVDEMOS so you can step through the code.
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7. IMPORTANT DOCUMENTATION INFORMATION
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All source code examples from the Turbo Vision Guide and from the
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User's Guide's chapter on object-oriented programming (chapter 4) can
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be found in the \TP\DOCDEMOS directory.
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8. Compatibility notes
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Turbo Debugger and Turbo Pascal 6.0
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You can use any version of Turbo Debugger with Turbo Pascal 6.0.
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However, because of the changes to the heap manager, don't watch,
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inspect or evaluate MemAvail or MaxAvail unless you're using Turbo
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Debugger 2.01 or later.
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Turbo Pascal 6.0 Heap Manager
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The new heap manager is faster and more efficient than in Turbo Pascal
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5.x. FreeMin is no longer needed and you can simply delete all
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references to it in your programs. FreePtr has been replaced. If
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you're relying on implementation-dependent features of the old heap
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manager, you'll have to modify your code to eliminate references to
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FreePtr. (If you just need to compress the heap, you can call the
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SetMemTop procedure from the Turbo Vision Memory unit.) See Chapter 16
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in the Programmer's Guide for more information about how the new heap
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manager works.
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If you are using a HeapError function, make sure it exits quickly when
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passed a Size value of 0:
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function HeapError(Size: Word): Integer; far;
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begin
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if Size > 0 then
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begin
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{ ... perform HeapError processing here ... }
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end;
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end;
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In version 6.0, HeapError is called with a value of 0 whenever an
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allocation moves the HeapPtr upwards.
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Turbo Pascal 6.0 and the Toolboxes
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The 4.0 toolboxes all work with Turbo Pascal 6.0. (The Turbo Editor
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Toolbox needs 2 easy source code modifications to work with 6.0. See
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the file HELPME!.DOC in \TP\DOC for more information.)
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Turbo Pascal 5.5 Object Unit
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All the demo units and programs from Turbo Pascal 5.5 will work with
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version 6.0 if you recompile them. However, we recommend that you use
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the new Object unit's streams and collections in any new programs you
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write. Note that you cannot use the 5.5 Objects unit with Turbo
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Vision.
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9. Testing Expanded Memory: EMSTEST.COM
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EMSTEST.COM is in the \TP\UTILS directory and can be used to test your
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Expanded Memory (EMS) hardware and software. If you have problems
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using Turbo Pascal with your EMS, type EMSTEST at the DOS prompt and
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follow the instructions. (To disable the IDE's EMS usage, specify /X-
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on the commandline when you load TURBO. To determine how much EMS the
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IDE is using, load TURBO and select GET INFO on the FILE menu.)
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10. Complete List of Files
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The INSTALL program will place all of the following on your hard disk
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during the installation process (the floppy installation installs only
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TURBO.TPL and TURBO.EXE or TPC.EXE):
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Install/Compiler
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INSTALL.EXE - Installs Turbo Pascal on your system
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README.COM - Program to display README file
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UNZIP.EXE - De-archiving program
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TURBO.ZIP - Archived file containing:
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TURBO.EXE - Turbo Pascal Integrated Development Environment
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TURBO.TPL - Resident units for Turbo Pascal
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TURBO.TP - Configuration file for TURBO.EXE
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TPC.EXE - Command-line version of Turbo Pascal
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README - This file!
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Turbo Vision/Tour
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TVISION.ZIP - Archived file containing Turbo Vision units:
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APP.PAS - Application unit source
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BUFFERS.PAS - Buffers unit source
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COLORSEL.PAS - Color installation unit source
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EDITORS.PAS - Editors unit source
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MSGBOX.PAS - Message box unit source
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STDDLG.PAS - Standard dialogs unit source
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APP.TPU - Application unit
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BUFFERS.TPU - Buffers unit
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COLORSEL.TPU - Color installation unit
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DIALOGS.TPU - Dialogs unit
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DRIVERS.TPU - Drivers unit
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EDITORS.TPU - Editors unit
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HISTLIST.TPU - History list unit
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MEMORY.TPU - Memory management unit
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MENUS.TPU - Menus unit
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MSGBOX.TPU - Messagebox unit
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OBJECTS.TPU - Objects unit
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STDDLG.TPU - Standard dialogs unit
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TEXTVIEW.TPU - Simple text window unit
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VIEWS.TPU - Views unit
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TVDEMOS.ZIP - Archived file containing Turbo Vision demos:
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TVDEMO.PAS - Turbo Vision demo application
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DEMOHELP.HLP - Compiled help file for TVDEMO
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ASCIITAB.PAS - ASCII table viewer
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CALC.PAS - Desktop calculator
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CALENDAR.PAS - Desktop calendar (monthly viewer)
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DEMOHELP.PAS - Context file produced by running HC on DEMOHELP.TXT
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FVIEWER.PAS - Text file viewer
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GADGETS.PAS - Desktop gadgets (clock, heap viewer)
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HELPFILE.PAS - Help system manager
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MOUSEDLG.PAS - Mouse options dialog
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PUZZLE.PAS - Simple brain teaser puzzle
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DEMOCMDS.PAS - Command constants for TVDEMO.PAS
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TVHC.PAS - Help text compiler
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DEMOHELP.TXT - Help file source for TVDEMO.PAS
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TVRDEMO.PAS - Resourced and overlaid version of TVDEMO.PAS
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MKRDEMO.BAT - Builds TVRDEMO.EXE
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GENRDEMO.PAS - Used by TVRDMAKE.BAT to build resources for TVRDEMO.PAS
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TVEDIT.PAS - Application that demonstrates the EDITORS unit
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TVFORMS.PAS - Form entry and edit application
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FORMCMDS.PAS - Command constants
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DATACOLL.PAS - Data record collection
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LISTDLG.PAS - List dialog manager
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FIELDS.PAS - Edit/entry fields
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FORMS.PAS - Form dialog manager
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PARTS.TVF - Sample data file
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PHONENUM.TVF - Sample data file
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GENFORMS.BAT - Generates sample data files for TVFORMS.PAS
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GENFORM.PAS - Used by GENFORMS.BAT
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GENPARTS.PAS - Used by GENFORMS.BAT
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GENPHONE.PAS - Used by GENFORMS.BAT
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FILEVIEW.PAS - Simple disk & file browser program
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TVTXTDMO.PAS - Demonstrates TEXTVIEW unit
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TVBGI.PAS - Demonstrates BGI support unit (GRAPHAPP)
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GRAPHAPP.PAS - Support unit for swapping between Turbo Vision and BGI
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INTRFACE.ZIP - Archived file containing the interface sections
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of Turbo Vision and runtime library units
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TURBO3.ZIP - Archived file containing TURBO3 and GRAPH3
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compatibility units and interface documentation
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TOUR.ZIP - Archived file containing the IDE Tour and its
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overlay files.
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Online Help
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HELP.ZIP - Archived file containing:
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TURBO.HLP - Online help data file
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BGI/Utilities
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BGI.ZIP - Archived file containing BGI driver and support
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files:
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GRAPH.TPU - Borland Graphics Interface (BGI) Graph unit
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ATT.BGI - AT&T 6300 driver
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CGA.BGI - CGA and MCGA driver
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EGAVGA.BGI - EGA and VGA driver
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HERC.BGI - Hercules mono driver
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PC3270.BGI - 3270 PC driver
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IBM8514.BGI - IBM 8514 driver
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GOTH.CHR - Gothic font
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LITT.CHR - Small font
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SANS.CHR - Sans serif font
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TRIP.CHR - Triplex font
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BGIDEMO.PAS - Graph unit demo
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ARTY.PAS - Graph unit demo
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BGILINK.PAS - Graph unit demo
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BGIDRIV.PAS - BGILINK.PAS demo unit
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BGIFONT.PAS - BGILINK.PAS demo unit
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BGILINK.MAK - BGILINK.PAS demo makefile
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UTILS.ZIP
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THELP.COM - TSR online help utility
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TPUMOVER.EXE - Unit mover utility
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TEMC.EXE - Turbo Editor Macro Compiler
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MAKE.EXE - UNIX-style project management utility
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GREP.COM - Text file search utility
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TOUCH.COM - Changes a file's timestamp to force re-compilation
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BINOBJ.EXE - Converts a binary data file to an .OBJ file
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EMSTEST.COM - Expanded Memory (EMS) hardware/software diagnostic
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utility
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DOCDEMOS.ZIP - Archived file containing source code examples
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from the User's Guide and Turbo Vision Guide.
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TCALC.ZIP - Archived file contain the source code to the Turbo
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Calc demo program
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DEMOS.ZIP - Archived file contain numerous demo programs
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ONLINE.ZIP - Archived file contain online documentation files:
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HELPME!.DOC - Answers to commonly asked questions
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FIXES.DOC - Corrections to the printed documentation
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TVISION.DOC - Enhancements to Turbo Vision
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BUFFERS.DOC - Documents the Turbo Vision buffers unit
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EDITORS.DOC - Documents the Turbo Vision editors unit
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TEMC.DOC - Turbo Editor Macro Compiler documentation
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THELP.DOC - Turbo Help (TSR) documentation
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UTILS.DOC - TPUMOVER, MAKE, GREP, TOUCH, BINOBJ documentation
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