Re: [OFFTOPIC] [CODE] Creating a MUD using Turbo Pascal

From: Thomas Pedersen (classic@WESTNET.COM)
Date: 09/17/98


Turbo Pascal certainly have pointers.

>On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Andrew Ritchie wrote:
>
>>I am very interested in creating my own MUD in Turbo Pascal (running
>>under DOS). If anyone knows the whereabouts of various networking
>>libraries for Pascal (eg. bind(), gethostbyname() in C) I would be
>>very much appreciative.
>
>A couple issues:
>a) You need a TCP/IP stack in order to do it.
>   There are some for DOS, but are frequently embedded in other programs.
>b) I don't remember Pascal having pointers (though I hardly used it)
>
>And why?
>
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