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need help with MS Pascal Ver. 3.2

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From: Myron A. Calhoun
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 02:49
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I can't get the SORT demo program that came with the MS Pascal compiler
to run.  It compiles and (apparently) links (I used LINK.V2) OK, but I
get a WILD INTERRUPT #3 when I try to execute it.
(#3 is "Reserved by INTEL", according to something I read somewhere)

I suspect that I haven't linked with the right library(ies), of which
there are several:  PASCAL.LIB
                    MATH.LIB
                    8087.LIB
                    DECMATH.LIB
                    ALTMATH.LIB
                    DOS2PAS.LIB

Page 3 of the manual says:

  "During linking, MS-LINK automatically searches a runtime library
   called PASCAL.LIB.  Therefore, depending on whether or not you have
   the 8087 coprocessor, you must rename the appropriate system
   library as PASCAL.LIB...."

First of all, LINK does NOT automatically search a runtime library,
but I know how to tell it to!  But just WHICH is "the appropriate system
library"?  I compared the MAPs for all of the libraries, and PASCAL.MAP
is very DIFFERENT from the other four, so I don't see how deleting
PASCAL.LIB and renaming one of the remaining MATH.LIB's to be PASCAL.LIB
can work.  (I tried it with at least one of them, and it didn't!)  The
four ...MATH.MAP's ARE essentially the same, so I suspect just one of
them should be seen by the LINKer.

So can someone please tell me what I need to do?
--Myron.
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Subject: need help with MS Pascal Ver. 3.2
Date: 12 Aug 1992 02:49:47 GMT
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