Compiling to COM format ???

[Frki]

Is there any way to compile Turbo Pascal 7.0 code to .COM file format, and not to .EXE format ?

 

[dkdude]

Hi there,

I'm not sure why you want to do it, but here's a tool that can convert from exe to com:

ftp://ftp.sac.sk/pub/sac/utilprog/xloader.zip

USE AT OWN RISK §;O)

Regards


Jakob

 

[lionelhill]

Remember that you probably won't be able to convert an exe to a com if the exe stemmed from something with multiple units, since each unit will have its own code segment, but in com that isn't the case. Also if your exe is at all large (global variables plus code > 64K) it won't fit in a com.

 

[realm174]

The other option would be to try and get your hands on an older version. I believe TP3 was doing .com only. Unfortunately, I don't have a version of it anymore... but others might and they could compile the source for you



Cheers,

Realm174

 

[dkdude]

... speaking of TP3: That is actualy made available for free by Borland at this address:

http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,20792,00.html

Quite antique §;O)


Jakob

 

[Bertv100]

You will have a very hard time converting 7.0 code to 3.0 code (believe me, I started learning Pascal in version 3.0).
It had no units, keyboard handling was more difficult, you didn't have much memory (all the code and global variables had to fit in 64K) and you certainly couldn't use object.
On the other hand, turning off ^C was easier and compiled programs didn't have any trouble with fast CPUs.



Regards,
Bert Vingerhoets
vingerhoetsbert@hotmail.com

http://student.vub.ac.be/~bvingerh/

Don't worry what people think about you. They're too busy wondering what you think about them.

 

[dkdude]

... which brings me back to my original wondering why the need for a binary ??

Could be that it's supposed to run on an embedded system?? -which I think will most certainly require another compiler than Borlands!


Jakob