Hej Paul!

Sunday March 31 1996, Paul West writes to Allan Mertner:

 AM>> If x is 0, the I+ statement is never executed.  Sad.

 PW> OUCH!
 PW> That explains some problems I was having porting some of my older utility
 PW> routines over.   It's a serious problem with compatability, but for new
 PW> code, as long as you are carefull, shouldn't be a real problem.

Not really, unless you are of the kind who wants to set a set of default
directives at the beginning of your source code - this of course is not
allowed in SP, and {$I} "statements" can only be placed inside
begin-end constructs..

[KbdVio32.Dll]

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

Yep.

 PW> I guess I'll have to take another look at VP.  I was hoping SP would be
 PW> the answer.

Don't despair - VP is here.  Get the demo version VP10DEMO.ZIP, which is
available from both ftp and on various BBSs - and is about 1.4MB.  It is a
fully functional version that you can use to evaluate its usefulness...

ftp: ftp.fprint.co.uk/fprint/vpascal
BBS: 2:254/283 or +44 181 563 8624.  File request allowed.

Yours,
Allan Mertner

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