Thanks for everybody's help. I've made some progress in getting my standard Pascal programs to compile under fpc.
Now comes a big issue. In standard Pascal, one can use get() and put() to access files. The current file object is accessed with file^. I use this in many places. program getput(shellp, output); var shellp: text; (* file used by this program *) begin Assign (shellp,'shellp'); writeln(output,'getput test is running'); reset(shellp); writeln(output,'first character of shellp: ',shellp^); end. Free Pascal Compiler version 2.6.4 [2015/10/07] for x86_64 Copyright (c) 1993-2014 by Florian Klaempfl and others Target OS: Darwin for x86_64 Compiling getput.p getput.p(9,56) Error: Illegal qualifier getput.p(11) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping Fatal: Compilation aborted Error: /sw/bin/ppcx64 returned an error exitcode (normal if you did not specify a source file to be compiled) So shellp^ failed. If I try instead get(shellp); I get: getput.p(12,7) Error: Identifier not found "get" getput.p(14) Fatal: There were 1 errors compiling module, stopping Fatal: Compilation aborted So get and put do not exist in fpc? Tom Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. Senior Investigator National Institutes of Health National Cancer Institute Center for Cancer Research Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory Molecular Information Theory Group Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 schne...@mail.nih.gov https://schneider.ncifcrf.gov (current link) https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
