From Borland Pascal to GNU Pascal

This chapter is intended to be a QuickStart guide for programmers who are familiar with Borland Pascal, version 7 for DOS protected mode. Other versions don't differ too much but this one is the very last DOS version Borland has published.

• Borland compatibility
• There is no IDE!
• Comments and compiler directives
• Units; GPI files and AutoMake
• Optimization
• Debugging
• GPC inline assembler
• Objects
• Strings
• Typed constants
• Bit; byte and memory manipulation
• User-defined operators
• Data types
• Files
• Built-in constants
• Built-in operators
• Built-in Procedures and Functions
• Parameters
• Miscellaneous