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This Tutorial is Copyright Coronado Enterprises and neither I nor
A.P.D.L. make any claim upon it or any of it's content. 

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A considerable amount of work was involved in transferring it from its
original PC format and cleaning up the text files and removing
spurious characters.

This has been done entirely for the convenience of Archimedes users
who want to learn to program in 'C' because most books on the subject
are incredibly expensive. It has NOT been done for the convenience of
other PD libraries and BBS.

I have no objection to private individuals GIVING copies of this disc
to their friends. If you do so you have an obligation to include this
file and this obligation is transfered to anyone to whom you give it.
You must not upload the contents of this disc to any BBS without my
permission.

I will object most strongly if I find a copy of this disc in any other
PD library or BBS without my permission.

Since I have no claim upon any of this material and would wish it to
be available to as many Archimedes owners as possible I won't
unreasonably withold permission from any reputable library or BBS that
wants to include it (although I might ask for a couple of discs in
exchange!) but if I find it appearing without autorisation I WILL
charge a FEE towards the time I spent transfering it.

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I make no claim upon the CONTENT, but I do claim certain rights to the
work I put in converting it to the Archimedes MEDIA.
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If you don't want to ask permission then you can purchase the original
Pascal Tutor from most PC Shareware Libraries and transfer it yourself


          Notes on the Archimedes disc
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This Tutorial was written for the PC and so, of course, much of it is
PC specific, which is true of almost all work published on the
subject. However Pascal is supposed to be a 'portable' language and so
although some of the example programs may not actually compile or run
on the Archimedes, the basic language syntax is identical.

There is one major difference. The examples on this disc were intended
to be used with Borlands 'Turbo Pascal'. For serious work on the PC
there really isn't any alternative. (I wish someone at Acorn would
take a look at Borlands compilers. They are about four times as good
as theirs at about a quarter the price!). One special feature of Turbo
Pascal is that it has support for strings, which is not present in
standard Pascal. If you want to make your programs portable you will
therfore need to be careful not to use the String functions.

Some of the files which are mentioned in the text for printing and
displaying the text have been omited because they are not necessary on
the Archimedes

One of the reasons that I included this disc in the A.P.D.L. library
is because Acorn have just released their DDE Pascal compiler as PD.
This means that anyone who has a DDE 'C' compiler can now find out how
much nicer Pascal is for the price of a disc! 

The trouble is that there is no documentation with DDE Pascal.

If you don't actually have a Pascal compiler but want to try it out
without paying the obscene price that Acorn ask for their DDE 'C'
package then I can recommend the PC Shareware compiler Surpas Pascal
on disk P206 which will run under the PC Emulator. 

You will also find some discs with various Library routines for Pascal
in the PC section of the catalogue

The files in the 'Bin' directory are compiled example files which must
of course be run on a PC or under the PC Emulator.

Please remember that this work is SHARWARE and don't forget to
send some money if you find it useful.





                David Holden  
                A.P.D.L.
                39 Knighton Park Road
                Sydenham
                London  SE26 5RN

                081 778 2659


