Thanks for the links, I appreciate that but I know... pretty much nothing
of Pascal lol
I think I just need to clean up my code and things should be fine.
Actually, I can't even say "my code". The directory traversal routine
(which is the root of the problem) was part of an old public domain program
I found years ago.
I'll get it working eventually. :)
On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Rugxulo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Mercury Thirteen
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, the lack of a 16-bit target made me pretty much write it off for
> this
> > project. The project is having string space corruption issues right now
> > anyway, so a C rewrite (or just forgetting the project altogether lol)
> may
> > be more prudent.
>
> I'm far from an expert in QB, but if all you need is a 16-bit language
> with decent string support (while also allowing low-level system
> stuff), I'd suggest Pascal. Specifically, FreePascal (either Turbo or
> Delphi dialect) has some fairly good 16-bit target support in its
> 2.7.1 snapshots:
>
> ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/snapshot/v27/i8086-msdos/
>
> N.B. These pre-built binaries are for Win32 host only. I've never
> tried rebuilding it, but it claims to work at least on OS X or Linux
> host as well. (Dunno about go32v2, seems nobody cares for that much
> anymore. Honestly, we're lucky anything works.) It does "mostly" work
> under HX, in limited testing, but you'll have to get that from Wayback
> since Japheth's site is AWOL.
>
> http://wiki.freepascal.org/DOS
>
>
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