Features of PASCALM

                             Jinfu Chen
                  (Enhancements by Phiilip R. Poulos)

        This file briefly explains what features the program has. You should
refer to the PASCALM.DOC for detailed descriptions of the program.

        PASCALM is a shell manager program for OSS PASCAL( both version 1.x
and 2.x). You can replace the PASCAL.PRG with this program and copy PASCALM.RSC
to the same drive. The program is actually a combination of both PASCAL
managers and has a few useful things for programming. Namely, these are:

    o   automatically backing up source code upon successful compilation, this
        one is my favor since I can edit a file in a RAM disk and back it up in
        a floppy drive once the file is compiled;

    o   allowing overlay programs reside in other path, you can have the editor
        in drive C, compiler in drive D, PASLIB and GEMLIB in drive E, etc;

    o   performing several DESKTOP operations, such as copy file, rename file,
        delete file, create and delete folders, and check free disk space;

    o   running TTP type program, i.e., having a dialog box to allow you enter
        a command line, just like what DESKTOP does;

    o   use of the keyboard to invoke menu selections. For example, ^E or Alt-E
        to edit, ^C or ALT-C to compile, ^L or Alt-L to link, ^R or Alt-R to
        run a program, etc.;
        
    o   ability to load or save OPTION files;

    o   simulating the Renaming or Moving of files bewteen different disk drives

    o   uses GEM's file selector box. If you have substituted an alternate file
        selector box for the standard one, this program will work nicely with
        it;
    
        There are some more features in the compiler and linker options, read
the DOC file or run the program to find out yourself.

        Other possible features include: batch file copy using wildcard, and
option to list directory information with file size and date.

Please report bugs to :

        Jinfu Chen
        445 S. Dobson Rd., #2022             (602)898-5338 (work)
        Mesa, AZ 85202                       (602)834-7061 (home)

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