BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Newbie question: Pascal-Delphi          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Juan Vazquez Guest Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:37 pm    Post subject: Newbie question: Pascal-Delphi Program migration from Pascal to Delphi ? Regards to the newsgroup. Excuse my sudden intromission into the group, but I know from my long experience in these groups that there are a lot of people willing to help. As I ceased to program several years ago I found myself in the situation that my old programs are incompatible with Windows 98 and XP. I have code written in 1995 to 97 under DOS, using Borland Turbo Pascal, which running under Windows, create problems when they write data files on to the fixed disk. I'm having trouble when restarting my PC. I guess this is due to the protection of the fixed disk by Windows. Mi question is: Is there a way of importing or converting my old codes into DELPHI ? or Shall I have to write them again ? Thanks in advance. Juan Vazquez P.S.: I'm having the same problem with Quick Basic and Visual Basic. Is there a way of importing or converting my old QBasic programs into Visual Basic ? Back to top Juan Vazquez Guest Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:44 pm    Post subject: Re: Newbie question: Pascal-Delphi I haven't found an answer in the Newsgroup FAQ. -- To e-mail me delete the dot and substitute the _ by an "s". Back to top Nicholas Sherlock Guest Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 4:54 am    Post subject: Re: Newbie question: Pascal-Delphi Juan Vazquez wrote: Quote: Program migration from Pascal to Delphi ? Is there a way of importing or converting my old codes into DELPHI ? Not automatically. Try going New->Console application. Find a CRT replacement unit (google..) which will emulate your old DOS commands for screen/file access, or learn a little about Delphi and rewrite them. Cheers, Nicholas Sherlock Back to top VBDis Guest Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:50 pm    Post subject: Re: Newbie question: Pascal-Delphi Im Artikel <cu69jb$stt$1 (AT) newsreader (DOT) mailgate.org>, "Juan Vazquez" <j.vazquez (AT) _emavenca (DOT) com> schreibt: Quote: I have code written in 1995 to 97 under DOS, using Borland Turbo Pascal, which running under Windows, create problems when they write data files on to the fixed disk. What kind of problems? Perhaps you have not the right to write to the directory? Quote: I'm having trouble when restarting my PC. I guess this is due to the protection of the fixed disk by Windows. Again, what kind of problems? DoDi Back to top Juan Vazquez Guest Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:57 am    Post subject: Re: Newbie question: Pascal-Delphi "VBDis" <vbdis (AT) aol (DOT) com> escribió en el mensaje news:20050207165058.11648.00000029 (AT) mb-m11 (DOT) aol.com... Quote: Im Artikel <cu69jb$stt$1 (AT) newsreader (DOT) mailgate.org>, "Juan Vazquez" [email]j.vazquez (AT) _emavenca (DOT) com[/email]> schreibt: What kind of problems? Perhaps you have not the right to write to the directory? I'm having trouble when restarting my PC. I guess this is due to the protection of the fixed disk by Windows. Again, what kind of problems? Thanks Nicholas and DoDi for your answers. I checked where I'm sending my files to and they are been written on the current directory. I understand Windows protect the fixed disk from being written from non-Windows applications. Nevertheless the program does write to the disk. The problem: after running my program from Windows XP, the PC (Celeron 1.1 GHz, 256 Mb Ram) wouldn't restart at all. Black screen. In a second try a Secure Mode would start (I'm translating from Spanish: "Modo a prueba de fallos" or "Secure Mode" or "Fail proof mode"). There were several options: "Restart the PC with the last working configuration" was one. Other was the "Fail proof mode", etc. Can't recall all of them. From the "Fail proof mode" I reinitiated the PC and everything came back to normal. I have not dared to run my old programs again :-/ In other PC (Pentium II, 300 Hz, 128 Mb Ram), running under Windows 98, the PC started in the so called by me "Fail proof mode". Restarting from that mode returned the PC to normality. Any new suggestions DoDi ? Shall I run my programs from the symbol of the System C:/ (XP) and from the DOS mode (Restarting the Pentium II in DOS) ? Thanks in advance. JV -- To e-mail me delete dot and substitute "_" by "s". Back to top korax1214@mailandnews.co. Guest Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 5:03 pm    Post subject: Re: Newbie question: Pascal-Delphi Juan Vazquez wrote: Quote: In a second try a Secure Mode would start (I'm translating from Spanish: "Modo a prueba de fallos" or "Secure Mode" or "Fail proof mode"). That sounds to me like the mode which, in English-language Windows, is called "Safe mode". 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