Dave said:
Hey iam using windows XP home edition and i am trying to get Turbo
pascal to work on it i need to for college work. I have downloaded
the program and followed the installation instructions but i cant get
it to work i dont know if the instructions were for someother
OS...any way every time i try to run it i get the message
C:\windows\system32\autoexec.nt. The system file is not suitable for
running MS-DOS and microsoft windows applicatrions. choose close to
terminate the application.
Thanks in adavance Dave
Turbo Pascal has been long dead. It started in 1983 and died something
like a decade ago. It then evolved into Object Pascal and is now
Delphi. So just where at Borland's web site did you happen to find a
"download" of Turbo Pascal? After a Google search, I found the link
http://bdn.borland.com/article/0,1410,20803,00.html for version 5.5
(note that this download is under their *Museum* section). I think
there was a version 7 (also for DOS) around 1992 but couldn't find a
link to it. Look at
http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/borpasv.htm for a
history list of old versions. There a couple of Windows version of
Turbo Pascal but I'm not sure even those would still run under an
NT-based version of Windows.
When you have a problem with a Microsoft product, the first place you
should look is in Microsoft's own support knowledgebase at
http://support.microsoft.com. Do an advanced search on "autoexec.nt"
(exact phrase).
This newsgroup is for new users of Windows XP. That's an operating
system. You are asking about a particular application. Try one of the
comp.lang.* newsgroups.
http://info.borland.com/devsupport/delphi/inforecs/newsgroups.html lists
several of them for Borland's pascal-oriented products.
Did your teacher actually require that you use a long discontinued
product for programming training? While the schools may be 5 years out
of date, you should ask them why they are requiring the use of a product
that is a decade out of date. You'll probably have to find an computer
that is running old DOS or maybe Windows 98, or learn how to use
multibooting to install those old operating systems in their own
partition so you can boot to them and install the old software.
Otherwise, you'll probably have to get something more up to date. I
think the personal version of Delphi is free. There are some listed at
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Pascal/Compilers/. I've
heard of Free Pascal but never used it. Once I was out of the
university, I only used Pascal once and that was to figure out some test
code ran against our product so I could convert it to C and VB.
