Re: Re: Anybody interested ... DRL error 200 (CRT) solved! (almost)

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Eric Auer wrote:

> Hi, Ralf Quint just pointed out that ONLY Turbo Pascal 7.0 has the fatal
> CRT library bug. Compiling with Turbo Pascal 5.5 will just lead to any
> delay loops in the program running too fast (at least some of my Turbo
> Pascal 5.5 compiled programs experienced this on my > 100 but < 200 MHz
> computer). So thanks for pointing out that this is a non-issue.

Yes, you can read that on the countless sites that document rte200.
like this one
http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/pas-r200.htm

In earlier TPs delay does not even function properly on a >= 20 Mhz PC
because its initialization uses a 16bit counter (how many times can I
to execute loop xxx before 55ms have passed?).

> - recompile with an OLD Turbo Pascal like the free 5.5

well 7.01 is free as in beer too, you just need to be able to read some
French (which I always find surprisingly easy if it's technical, but
YMMV).
Télécharger is possible at
http://www.inprise.fr/download/compilateurs/

Bart