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  Borland's Free Ver 5 Compiler Michael Karas <mkaras@carousel-design.com> - 2013-04-07 12:58 -0700
    Re: Borland's Free Ver 5 Compiler Ross Ridge <rridge@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> - 2013-04-07 18:23 -0400
    Re: Borland's Free Ver 5 Compiler "Bill Leary" <Bill_Leary@msn.com> - 2013-04-07 23:31 -0400
    Re: Borland's Free Ver 5 Compiler rugxulo@gmail.com - 2013-04-08 14:20 -0700

#880 — Borland's Free Ver 5 Compiler

[This followup was posted to comp.os.msdos.programmer and a copy was sent to the cited author.]

Some time back the company that now holds the strings to what used to be 
Borland posted an available Version 5 of their compiler tools for free 
download. 

Does anyone know if these Ver 5 tools are suitable for use in making 
programs under MSDOS or FreeDOS?


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Michael Karas
Carousel Design Solutions
http://www.carousel-design.com

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#882

Michael Karas  <mkaras@carousel-design.com> wrote:
>Does anyone know if these Ver 5 tools are suitable for use in making 
>programs under MSDOS or FreeDOS?

The free Borland C++Builder 5 command line tools were only usable for
creating 32-bit Windows applications, unfortunately.

					Ross Ridge

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#885

"Michael Karas"  wrote in message 
news:MPG.2bcb6faae241e60f9896f6@news.eternal-september.org...
> [This followup was posted to comp.os.msdos.programmer and a copy was sent 
> to the cited author.]
>
> Some time back the company that now holds the strings to what used
> to be Borland posted an available Version 5 of their compiler tools for
> free download.

I haven't downloaded anything but Turbo Pascal 5.5.  If that's what you're 
talking about then...

> Does anyone know if these Ver 5 tools are suitable for use in making
> programs under MSDOS or FreeDOS?

Under MS-DOS, yes.  I've used it (Turbo Pascal 5.5) for that for years.  I 
don't have FreeDOS installed on anything, so I can't say about that.

    - Bill

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#889

Hi,

On Sunday, April 7, 2013 2:58:07 PM UTC-5, Michael Karas wrote:
> 
> Some time back the company that now holds the strings to what used to be 
> Borland posted an available Version 5 of their compiler tools for free 
> download. 
> 
> Does anyone know if these Ver 5 tools are suitable for use in making 
> programs under MSDOS or FreeDOS?

I suppose you mean Borland C++ 5.5 from Embarcadero. You still need to "sign up" (give them some personal info) to get the download, but yeah, last I checked, it's freeware (but you probably can't redistribute it).

http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20633

Suitable for DOS? It's not a DOS compiler, only Win32 (PE) flat memory model, though it does use 32-bit OMF (OBJ), IIRC. You can use it in DOS via WDOSX or Japheth's HX, if you want. But it's not really a DOS compiler, so if you want "real" DOS (and access to lots of other DOS things that are harder to do in a Windows-oriented toolset), you'd be better off with OpenWatcom or DJGPP (IMHO).

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