Paul West wrote in a message to Allan Mertner:

AM> Text-mode apps written in SP require a 27kB DLL KBDVIO32.DLL to run.
AM> This is because SP not supports thunking calls to 16-bit API
AM> functions - and all of the text-mode Vio, Mou and Kbd calls are 16
AM> bit.  The DLL is written in C and cannot be written in Speed-Pascal.
AM> If you want to access other 16-bit API calls, you need to write
AM> another thunking DLL for it - but not in SP...

 PW> Now that could be a real problem.  If I have to write stuff
 PW> in C to get Speed up and running, I may as well write C in
 PW> the first place.

I don't know anything about Pascal, but writing a thunk DLL in C should be
trivial.  It would amount to tedious typing at worst.  Using the proper
_Far16 keywords or whatever was appropriate to your particular compiler,
the compiler would do all of the work.
 
-- Mike


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