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At 08:54 PM 10/17/2005, you wrote:
>> I would be VERY interested, however, in how you
>> implemented I/O, since the BB library lacks basic READ and
>> WRITE statements.
>>
>
>I suspect you might not be so interested when you find out ;-)
>
>...If you are porting a Pascal program with I/O scattered through it, it is
>best to redesign it by creating an IO-specific module and just make
>calls to that. It is then easier to maintain into the future and port to
>other systems.
I agree, that's the right way to do it.
>Consequently P2O now runs on .NET (using the Gardens Point compiler) and
>on Win32 (using BlackBox) with virtually all of the source code apart
>from two very small modules, *identical* for both.
Sounds good. How does it differ from Tp2Cp?
Sincerely,
Rex Couture
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