[fpc-pascal] updating an old DOS tool using PChar strings

[Paul Breneman]

On 02/20/2014 01:43 PM, Sven Barth wrote:
> On 20.02.2014 02:49, waldo kitty wrote:
>>> even if you do, trunk with the plain 16-bit msdos support might still
>>> do it
>>> for you).
>>
>> i've pulled DOS262 with the GO memory extender but have not yet
>> installed it on the system due to other questions not yet posed...
>>
>> i'm not sure what "trunk with 16 bit support" you speak of... i think it
>> may be the recent work being done on 8086 support... is this right? if
>> so, then trunk /may/ be where i want to go /but/ my OS/2 box doesn't
>> have the ability to pull trunk and compile the DOS version... at least,
>> not as far as i know... so far, i'm been relegated to pulling and
>> installing the release snapshots on my OS/2 box... my winwhatever boxen,
>> on the other hand, do pull and use trunk... at some point i hope to
>> figure out how to perform cross compiling on so that i can work on a
>> project on any platform and compile it for any other environment... this
>> is part of the above mentioned questions not yet posed ;)
>
> This entry in the wiki page for the 16-bit compiler contains a link to
> another page where seems to be mentioned how the cross compiler can be
> build on Windows and also the tools required:
> http://wiki.freepascal.org/DOS#Snapshots
>
> Regards,
> Sven

I recently turned up some interesting stuff about Turbo Pascal, so 
wanted to add it here in case it might be of help.

Here I can purchase source code (for $200) to make my own Turbo Pascal 
compiler for DOS (I don't plan to purchase):
http://turbo51.com/compiler-design/tpc16-turbo-pascal-compiler-written-in-turbo-pascal

The same guy has put a bit of effort into these pages:
http://turbopascal.org/
http://turbopascal.org/turbo-pascal-download - see 3 PDFs at the bottom
http://turbopascal.org/sitemap - could look up TP bugs here?