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to: Mike Bilow
from: Allan Mertner
date: 1996-04-10 14:27:16
subject: Re: Speed Pascal

Hej Mike!

Tuesday April 02 1996, Mike Bilow writes to Paul West:

 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.

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

Sure, but it still required you to have a C compiler and know the basics of
how to use it.  Why Speed-Pascal does not just support Far16 calls is
beyond me.

Yours,
Allan

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