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Pascal Links, Page 2.

(Note : I generally check out URLs before listing them. Frames-only sites were not included before Oct 1998. "FNF" means File Not Found)

Please let me know of changed or permanently broken links. When doing so, please state the exact defective link as well as the replacement.

Borland

BORLAND links (have a nasty tendency to change) :-

• DevSupport : Pascal, Delphi.
• Online
• Museum with free copies of TP1, TP3.02, TP5.5 and early C products; Museum?
• It seems that TP7.01 is now (or was) free too (and BC++ 5.5), but Help is in French (Menus are English). (no DNS 20090713)
• Borland's own newsgroups : index (Web), TurboPascal or TurboPascal or TurboPascal group.

Bookmarks

These links have nearly all been tested, but please let me know if any now fail :-

Programming

• Prof. Timo Salmi's Programming Links (among other sections).
• Ralf Brown's List of PC interrupts, etc., information, inter??.zip at ctyme and maybe via Garbo/SimtelNet and mirrors. See also RBIL.
• Whatis : File formats lists; page set - Site. ???
• Wotsit : File formats descriptions; page set - Site.
• Timo Salmi (ts@uwasa.fi) of Garbo : Home Page
• PC Games Programmer's Encyclopaedia : PCGPE
• MiningCo; see Pascal, Delphi.
• Programmers Heaven - general info site, including hardware, software, Pascal, Delphi, ASM, LINUX, Windows, Graphics, Java, VB, Web, ...
• Net stack - Klaus Hartnegg

Turbo/Borland Pascal and Compatibles

• Garbo: Generic Turbo Pascal programming language material
• Jumbo! : Entry page Programming: DOS: Turbo Pascal programming language-related files
• EMS Professional Shareware, Pascal Tools and Their Producers, Second-hand software, older Pascal and Delphi products, manuals (and other services) : Eric Engelmann's EMS proprietorship.
• Jon Shemitz : comp.lang.pascal FAQ (stable) ; 32-Bit assembly code in Borland Pascal and Programming Publications (not inspected yet - frames).
• Frank Heckenbach's new main URLs are now Links and Programs; the provider independent URLs links and programs will still work.
• Bob Ferguson : Pascal, DOS and Windows freeware. File jrfpas06.zip is "Bob Ferguson's Turbo Pascal routine library". It is also available from Garbo FTP, or mirrors.
• EFLIB, by Johan Larsson <jola@ts.umu.se>
  Nov '97 : Johan has written : The project has now changed in strategy and is aiming on becoming an open standard framework for every Pascal programmer :-
  • New platforms: GNU Pascal and FPC Pascal.
  • New features: cross-platform GUI, etc. available in prototype
  • New mailing lists: EFLIB-Users@ts.umu.se, EFLIB-Developers@ts.umu.se
• Nerd World ?? : PASCAL PROGRAMMING.
• Pedt Scragg : DOS programs with Delphi; Files from Questions in Pascal Newsgroups; rest of site was incomplete.
• Klaus Hartnegg, Institut fuer Biophysik, Hansa-Strasse 9a, D-79104 Freiburg
• Andreas Killer's site for LFN###.ZIP, CRT.ZIP, and other items. Site not found, 2006-01-31.
• Jason Burgon's site - Graphics Vision
• Robert Lee's relocated High Performance Delphi - partly applicable to Pascal.
• Ing.Büro R.Tschaggelar : Turbo Pascal.
• TK Boyd : Sheepdog Software - various, including Delphi and Pascal. Also A.

Turbo Vision

• C Turbo Vision : TVPlus: Home Page (limited access) !
• An ASCII copy of Berend de Boer's Pascal Turbo Vision FAQ, dated 1995.
• Peter Brandstrom : Pascal Turbo Vision Utilities - TV page, TVTOYS.

ANSI-ISO Pascal

• "ANSI-ISO Pascal Web Page" by Scott A. Moore

Maths

• Chris Williams : The Number Crunching Page
• Some Sources of Numerical Analysis Code in Pascal A collection of pointers to all sorts of numerical analysis routines in Pascal, by NASA Langley. (404 20090713)
• The Turbo Pascal Math Library by Jean Debord : TP Math homepage
• 'Check NetLib for the source code to John Nash's book "Compact Numerical Methods for Computers"'. (untested by JRS)
• May 2 1991 nrpas13.zip Numerical Recipes Pascal shareware version, 303K! (untested, but part-read, by JRS; apparently FREE; evidently translated from Fortran & originally written for 32-bit floats, uses several values for "Pi", ...)
• NAG Libraries (libraries untested by JRS)

Comms

• Communication Libraries : "You should find what you want at TurboPower, or e-mail them at: info@tpower.com"
• On 18 Nov 1997 in borland.public.turbopascal, "J. W. Rider (TeamB)" wrote: TurboPower has their own newsgroups. TurboProfessional is discussed.

2003-01-08 ff. : I read that TurboPower is out of business, and their newsgroups are closed.
2004-05-20 : I read that there may be related stuff at SourceForge ; at 'Bugs', Request ID 955482 or elsewhere.

Magazines

• Dr. Dobb's Journal

Untested Links

Pascal Tutorials

• CORONADO ENTERPRISES TUTORIALS Shareware, included a Pascal Language Tutorial - looked good!
• MonsterSoft tutorial index - VESA
• Glenn Grotzinger's Turbo Pascal Tutorial - FTP
• And, effectively, Timo's FAQ.
• Marco Cantù's "Essential Pascal", by the author of "Mastering Delphi" books. Deals with Delphi's ObjectPascal.
• Tao Yue : "Learn Pascal" here?.

Pascal Books

The new 3rd edition of "Scientific Pascal" by H.Flanders has been favourably reviewed somewhere. I asked a Library to borrow it for me, and got the 2nd (1985) edition. If the 3rd is similar, as good, and updated, the first half is a good start on the language for the intelligent reader; the second half presents useful algorithms.

"Borland Pascal Developers Guide", written by Ed Mitchell and published by QUE Books, is good. See also his tpr-book.zip "Electronic Turbo Pascal Reference freeware book", at Garbo and mirrors.

"The Borland Pascal Problem Solver", by Brian Long (Addison-Wesley, 1994), ISBN 0-201-59383-1.

NASA Langley's list.

A booklist provided (Dec 1996) by Wayne C. Wood (kaizen@sunset.net) :-

• Numerical Recipes in C (also Fortran and, I believe, Pascal), 0-521-35465-X
• Data Structures with Abstract Data Types and Pascal, 0-534-03819-0
• Data Structures and Program Design, 0-13-195884-4
• Niklaus Wirth : Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs, 0-13-022418-9
• Donald E Knuth : The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes :-
  • Fundamental Algorithms, 0-201-03809-9
  • Seminumerical Algorithms, 0-201-03822-6
  • Searching and Sorting, 0-201-03803-X
  • Combinatorial Algorithms, in preparation, for 2007 (2006-08: part-available, in paperback).
  • Syntactic Algorithms, in preparation, for 2009.
  • ...

For other books, see Personal Computer Tips.

My Pascal Programs

Some of my Turbo/Borland Pascal programs, allegedly either useful or instructive, are in my programs directory as *.PAS and sometimes *.EXE files. The *.PAS files should contain sufficient explanation, as comment or at the end. Use at your own risk - check for viruses - etc. There is a plain-text 00index.txt file, and a derived 00index.htm file.

They include HUNT, an enhanced DIR; SHOWER, a pipeable LIST; CLEAN-TP, a Pascal layout program; INT_TEST, to check PC time/date services; MJD_DATE/DATEPROX, for date arithmetic, BST, Easter, etc.; LONGCALC, a RPN vast-integer calculator; and some to illustrate programming points.

Some programs are specifically written to help with DOS Batch files.

At present, I normally apply a fix for the Crt RTE200 bug; but, if your PC is fast and *.PAS has "uses ... Crt ... ;", you may not be able to use every *.EXE; RSVP if so. However, where I can, I avoid using the Borland Crt unit.

Several of the programs will also compile and run in Delphi 3, using Win 9x console mode (DCC32 -cc ...). There is at present one Delphi-only GUI program.

Miscellaneous

Demon users should FTP files from the Demon mirrors whenever possible.

Replace ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/ by ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/mirrors/garbo/ which should give a quicker transfer; likewise for simtelnet. AIUI, simtel is mirrored as coast now.

To convert asm..end to Inline(...) form, reportedly inlin219.zip at Simtel/Garbo.

  36139 Apr 26 1988 ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/turbopas/inlin219.zip
  inlin219.zip Inline assembler for Turbo Pascal, w/source, D.Baldwin

R.E.Donais wrote :- AFAIR ObjectVision was a window application that Borland put together to allow non-programmers to develop simple form oriented data entry and retrieval.