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Turbo Pascal

This brief page documents how to get started with Turbo Pascal 3.00A, compiling a hello-world program.

To get started run:

 P> turbo

You should now be looking at the Turbo Pascal splash screen, showing the version, copyright message and which terminal is configured. At the bottom you'll be asked whether you want to Include error messages. For the moment press Y.

Now you will be presented with the main screen. You have a number of commands on this screen, which are accessed by a single letter as indicated by the (X) brackets:

 Logged drive: P

 Work file:
 Main file:

 (E)dit     (C)ompile  (R)un   (S)ave

 e(X)ecute  (D)ir      (Q)uit  compiler (O)ptions

 Text:     0 bytes (8118-8118)
 Free: 22253 bytes (8119-D806)

 >

The first thing you should do is to configure things to actually generate .com files when you run the compilation step. Start by pressing O to choose the compiler Options, which will show you this:

 compile -> Memory
       Com-file
       cHn-file

 Find run-time error  Quit

Choose Com-file by pressing C, then press Q to go back to the main-menu. If the main menu doesn't appear press ?.

Now you can launch the editor by pressing E. You'll be prompted for a file to edit, so you can choose something like "steve.pas". Enter the following program:

       Line 1    Col 1   Insert    Indent  A:STEVE.PAS
   program Hello;
   begin
     writeln ('Hello, world.');
   end.

Now you can exit the editor by pressing Ctrl-k d, once again you'll be at the main-menu. If that doesn't appear press ?.

Compile your work by pressing C:

   >

   Compiling  --> A:STEVE.COM
     5 lines

   Code:    54 bytes (20E2-2118)
   Free: 47009 bytes (2119-D8BA)
   Data:   135 bytes (D8BB-D942)

Press Q to exit the environment, and you'll then be able to execute your binary:

 P> STEVE
 Hello, world.

Keybindings

Keybindings within the editor-environment are based on those used in Wordstar, the following reference is a useful resource: