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Borland Pascal 7.0 comes with a new feature in the IDE:  You can install 
external programs like GREP or TASM, filter their output through a 
message filter program, and then link each line of the output to a line of 
source code.

I suspect that this feature isn't really new, but is just borrowed from 
BC++, but I don't have a copy of that, so I'm not sure.

Anyways, here's my question:  Are the message filters in the two programs 
the same?  What a message filter in BP does is the following:

Reading program output from stdin, and writing to stdout, it:

1.  Writes the string 'BI#PIP#OK', followed by a null terminator.

2.  The beginning of a new file is marked by a #0, the file's name, 
    terminated by a #0 character.

3.  Each message line begins with a #1, followed the line number (in low/high
    order), followed by the column number (in low/high order), then 
    the message text itself, terminated with a #0 character.

4.  The end of the output stream is marked by a #127 character.

(For those of you not familiar with BP:  #n is a character with ascii value
 n, written in decimal notation.)

I'm writing a filter for use with my DUMPPROG disassembler; if I follow 
these rules, will it work in BC++ too?  Which versions?

Duncan Murdoch
dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca