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In article <286@hao.UUCP>, bill@hao.UUCP (Bill Roberts) writes:
> 	I'm starting to use TML Pascal on a Mac+ (with DataFrame 20 hard disk) i
> and tried using the SetPaths DA included with the TML 2.0 release.   
> First off, > what is 'SetPaths' supposed to do?  

Set Paths is intended to help programs - specifically TML Pascal, find files
on an HFS system.  When an open (or similiar) call is done by the compiler
to find one of the Units you are using and it is not in the same folder
as the Pascal application, then Set Paths steps in and looks in the 5
alternate search areas you have declared with the DA.  There were several
bugs in the previous versions, but they have been corrected in version 1.3
which is on GEnie.  

> And secondly, what ever it is supposed to be doing, I don't think it is! 
> I use SetPaths to setup search paths for files 
> referenced in the source code of the file that I am trying to compile.  
> Everything is fine until I try to compile.  As soon as the compiler starts to 
> work on the target file the system hangs!

The system shouldn't hang, even without set paths, the compiler should put up
an SFGet box so that you can try and hand-select the appropriate files.

The TML 2.0 update information is not great at best, I was one of the first
to receive the upgrade - I got the new manual with a separate supplement
(a friend received his 2.0 upgrade the other day with the supplement bound into
the new manual.  Anyway, TML 2.0 is now up to 2.01 with several bug fixes.
Did you read/see that you need to compile the Units in the Pascal System folder
before you go about compiling your programs.  This was not overly clear from
a quick scan of the new manual.  One you have compiled all the units, quit
the compiler and rerun it, this will pre-load the MacIntf Unit for superfast
compiling.  

Also, when you get the 1.3 version of SetPaths there is also a doc file that
explains its function and use better.

Hope this helps any TML 2.0 users who are having similiar problems.


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Brian Bezanson {seismo,ihnp4,allegra,topaz,harvard}!uwvax!gumby!bezanson
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