-=> Quoting Keith Thomson to David Muir <=-

 
 DM>     I don't use Speed Pascal because I find VP much more reliable. I
 DM> don't like the "requirement" to use a custom string type which is
 DM> defined in neither "C" nor "Pascal" to call
OS/2 API's (I have no use
 DM> for the entire CSTRING type). Anything that can be done with CSTRING
 DM> can be done with STRINGs or PChars (true "C" strings).

 KT> Removed in 1.5..

    I wouldn't know.. Speed gamma 1.5 won't even compile this (on my system)..

Program WRIT;
uses wincrt;
begin
writeln('HELLO');
end.

 KT> Never encountered this.  Maybe you should send a bug report. (to the
 KT> author) 

    I would, but he would then require code which I have copyrighted and have 
no intention of distributing even for the purpose of improving that product. 
Sorry if that sounds selfish, but I put a lot of work into that code.

 KT> A small DLL... And it doesn't even need to be placed by the user..
 KT> having it in the same directory as the program tends to work fine. 

    It wouldn't work for my intended purpose, as one of the first things my 
program does is to change directories. If the DLL, offered any siginificant 
improvement, I would use it. And the sorry fact is that I could replace it 
with the 16bit API calls, if I was happy with the rest of the package. However 
I'm not and what i need I'm getting from VP.

 KT> Yeah, 1.0 of Speed isn't good, It was rushed because of everyone
 KT> pushing them to get it released right then... So they released it and
 KT> went back to improving it.. 
 KT> Besides, I got it for about 160$US less than VP's retail :)

    The price is the only selling point that gets my attention. Otherwise, I'm 
simply not impressed. But many others (such as yourself) have better results 
than do I. And I wish them the best.
    Methinks though that this is a little offtopic, and since we're destined 
to disagree on this one, lets let it sit..

Dave...

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