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to: Paul West
from: Keith Thomson
date: 1996-03-13 16:28:44
subject: Speed Pascal

Hello Paul!

Monday March 11 1996 14:53, Paul West wrote to Francois Thunus:

 PW> I've been playing around with the 1.5 Beta 5.  Is the gamma enough of
 PW> an improvement to get before purchasing the final product?

 PW> One thing that bugs me, and I can't find any documentation to tell me
 PW> if this restriction will be in the final release.  I can't seem to run
 PW> the EXE's on any machine that does not already have speed pascal
 PW> loaded.  Is there a runtime that has to be installed? or does the beta
 PW> just check for the compiler to prevent the beta from being used for
 PW> real.

It isn't a restriction, And should only be with VIO apps, You need to have
a 17k .DLL called KBDVIO32.DLL with the program to run VIO apps made by
Speed pascal...  Speed doesn't use 16 bit stuff, It needs the DLL to use
the 16 bit APIs.

Keith

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