[Simh] anyone know how to convert/translate turbo pascal to vax pascal?

Jon Elson elson at pico-systems.com
Wed Feb 7 21:25:33 EST 2018


On 02/07/2018 05:57 PM, simh-request at trailing-edge.com wrote:
> [Simh] anyone know how to convert/translate turbo pascal to
> 	vax	pascal?
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> since I did all that work recreating "castle" from the vax to the pc
> using turbo pascal (then free pascal)
> I'd like to "port" it back to the vax,
> but the vms 7.3 pascal compiler doesn't recognize "writeln"
> and I suspect things like types and records and case statements wont work either.
>
> anyone have any ideas?
Umm, I just looked back at some Pascal code I had on VAX 
Pascal, and it DEFINITELY has writeln statements in it.
This is such basic Pascal syntax, I can't imagine that did 
not work.  But, maybe you have to enable some library or 
Pascal "unit" to use those functions.

Jon


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