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JRS:  In article <15e632f8.0207031219.39c654e4@posting.google.com>, seen
in news:comp.lang.pascal.borland, DavidT <d.titheridge@auckland.ac.nz>
posted at Wed, 3 Jul 2002 13:19:43 :-
>I'm in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Auckland, New
>Zealand.
>We've just acquired some old equipment with driver software written in
>Turbo Pascal.
>I need to make some changes, but Version 4.0 of TP and the TP Graphix
>Toolbox is needed to recompile the software.
>The free download of TP 5.5 from the Borland site doesn't work in this
>case.
>
>Does anyone have Version 4.0 of TP and the TP Graphix Toolbox?

Please read the Borland guidelines about choice of news-server for
posting; your post has been less visible than it might have been, since
Borland's tame gurus, TeamB, only read from the Borland server.  I have,
therefore, reversed the newsgroups line, and set FU to c.l.p.b only.


Presumably your main reason for being unable to compile is that you do
not have the Toolbox.  AFAIR, but ICBW, the Toolbox was never part of
the basic Pascal product, but had to be acquired separately.  It may be
provided as source code, in which case it is potentially compilable with
5.5; it may be all as *.TPU (possibly with interface *.INC as
documentation), and TPUs have no cross-version compatibility.


Additionally, TP5.5 is upwards compatible with TP4, but this does not
mean that it can necessarily compile all TP4 source without any changes.
TP5.5, IIRC, introduced Objects, hence introduced the reserved word
"object".  If your code has any variables named "object", try changing
to "objekt".  There may be other differences of that general nature.


You may be able to buy the Toolbox, and/or TP4, in a legal manner (see
<URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/pas-bptp.htm#used>.
 
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