Hello Steven!

10 Aug 96 14:12, Steven Cameron wrote to Craig McGregor:

 SC>         Thanx Craig, the simple work i have been doing is stuff
 SC> like making a pyramid of numbers eg. 1 22
 SC> 333     as you can see this is pretty basic, i have also written
 SC> a password program that asks for a password and if it is correct
 SC> nothing happens but it goes back to Turbo pascal. How can i make
 SC> this an .exe file?? I already have it as one but i don't know how
 SC> i did it (i think someone else did it for me) can you help me
 SC> out?? i also want to make a program execute when the password is
 SC> correct how do i do that??

        Everyone has to start somewhere, and yes those trivial things like
pyrimids are pretty basic, but its that you lean the looping concepts,
rather than create something big and useful.

        I assume you have a full shrink-wrapped version of Turbo Pascal? Or
is it some sort of "lite" version that came with a book so that
you can learn?
It's been a while since I've used a Borland IDE, but try selecting Make off
the Compile menu, and that should create a new .exe file as long it isn't
one of those "Lite" versions.

        To call another program, there are two simplish methods off the top
of my head:

        One is the exec function (check the online help), but if it isn't a
.exe file, i.e. a .bat or .com, then gives another buzz.

        The othr way, particularly if a program needs a lot of memory, is to
use the Exit function, opps, I think it might be halt in Pascal, umm, check the
online help, using this method you could call the program from a batch file
and catch the error level..

Regards,
Craig
               "Craig McGregor" 3:772/1175{at}fidonet.org
               "Craig McGregor" 8:9000/110{at}familynet

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