Re: Kyan Pascal - new insights

[mark@pokey.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning)]

In article <22jenm$h68@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>,
zcaa1122@rpool9.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Wulf Hofbauer) wrote:
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> I don't want to flame Kyan Pascal. It's just I was VERY disappointed with
> it.
> 
> - Wulf

I too, am not overly happy with Kyan Pascal.  However, I am working quite
hard on upgrading the entire thing to something worth my while.  I've
already
overcome most of the string manipulation restrictions.  Borrowing from C,
I have made strcpy, strcat, strncpy, strcmp, strncmp, etc....  Further, I
am now working on creating my own versions of fopen, fclose, fread, fwrite,
etc... so I am not restricted by the compilier's needs (ie:You MUST put
how many files you will be needing on the call line).

When I get through I will probably have more of a C compilier than a Pascal
compilier - but that is what I am aiming at.  I'm hoping to create a set
of routines which will allow me to do other things (such as write a viable
vi program so I can use it rather than Kyan Pascal's ED).  Which is why I
was asking about chaining.  All of VI will not fit into a single area of
memory unless it is so stripped down that it doesn't do anything. ;)

So now the question is: Can you call the BASIC routines or is there a
routine which parses a user's inputs which I can call to do the Kyan
Pascal commands (ie: mv, cp, <program name>, etc...)?  Thanks. :)
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