Pascal Compiler for Xenix

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In article <1343 at ndsuvax.UUCP>, nenicola at ndsuvax.UUCP (Steven Nicolai) writes:
> I am looking for Pascal compilers for a xenix based system.  Some
> friends of mine have a large system consisting of about 300 pascal
> programs that they are looking at moving to xenix from MS-DOS.
> 
> The biggest extensions to Pascal that are needed are:
> 
>     1.  The ability to take the address of a variable.  (This is
>         used to comunicate with the C library)
> 
>     2.  ANSI strings, strings as arrays of CHAR won't do.

Look at  the Microsoft Pascal compiler.  It is compatable at the source level
with the same compiler on dos.  It has both of the extensions you want (the
strings are called "lstring"s), and is fairly bug-free.  We have been using
both versions (DOS and Xenix) for a few years now with very few problems.


Jonathan Bayer
Intelligent Software Products, Inc.