Software tools in Pascal

An excellent exposition of building useful tools for whatever operating system. I was able to build the tools easily, as is, on Linux with Free Pascal, with only a few modifications to the example primitives.

I had this book in my programming library and with some spare time I am implementing each program example from the text in Visual Basic 2010 console based applications, meant to use input output redirection and piping from the command line. There are mild problems with the program examples which are related to the authors using only UNIX systems for writing the programs in Pascal, like a CR is defined as 10 not 13, and is only one character, whereas in Windows a new line is a two character combination of a CR/LF.

Not recommended.For an experienced Pascal programmer the book can be quite an interesting read, more for the challenges it presents than the solutions it gives.