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Seth Hopkinson's Borland Turbo Pascal Page

NOTE: All information on this WEB page applies to Borland Turbo Pascal version 7.0. Other versions may or may not be similar.

The most commonly asked questions:
Where can I get Borland Turbo Pascal? -- You used to buy it in the stores. If you look around you might be able to find it, or other versions for very cheap. (NOTE: Around the year 2000, Borland Turbo Pascal was phased out and replaced by a product called Delphi)

General Information -- Some general information all Borland Turbo Pascal programmers should read, especially beginners.

Should I learn PASCAL programming? -- Pascal is an ideal language for beginners and experienced users alike. I suggest you learn it after you learn QBasic, but there is no reason you could not learn PASCAL as your first programming language. Borland's Turbo Pascal is an EXCELLENT implementation of the language, complete with a host of graphics libraries and other goodies to improve programming life!

I can be EMailed at hopkins@smartlink.net but due to the tremendous volume of EMail I recieve, it may take awhile for me to send an answer. Comments are appreciated. Questions get on my nerves fast but I may answer it if I am in the mood --- But I won't even bother answering if the info can be found in Online Help or if your question is too vague and general ("How could I make a game like Sceptre of Shalimar?" is a good example. Way too vague. The answer would easily fill a book. Vague questions like this will be ignored).

* General Information *

1. First off let me say USE THE ONLINE HELP!!! Borland Turbo Pascal has a reference manual built right in. Just go into the HELP menu, and select INDEX (or press SHIFT-F1). Every single command is in there, along with examples on how to use them.

2. To make an .EXE file out of one of your programs, go into the COMPILE menu, select "DESTINAION : " until it says "DESTINATION : DISK". If you want to just test-run the program, select "DESTINATION : MEMORY".

Come back in the future and there will be more interesting information here.

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This Web Page was created 4 Nov 1996 by Seth Hopkinson. Last Modified 29 Aug 2004.