Resource Utility
Volume Number: 1
Issue Number: 12
Column Tag: A Resource Utility DA with TML Pascal
A Resource Utility DA with TML Pascal 
By Alan Wootton, President , Top-Notch Productions, MacTutor
Contributing Editor
The subject this month is a sample Desk Accessory, but the real news of note is
the emergance of a Pascal compiler for the Mac. The Desk Accessory (DA) presented
here will be compiled with TML Pascal and is installed using Apples Font/DA Mover
program. The DA is called ShowRes and is used to view the resources that are open on
the heap. Between the compiler, the desk accessory, and the subject of resources there
is more than can be presented in one month. The strategy will be to discuss the overall
structure of DAs, how to compile, and details on resources. We'll put off until later
the complete exposition of desk accessories. In order to show the overall structure of a
DA I have a MacPascal program that will emulate the systems treatment of DAs. I will
present this program next month.
How to Compile
The compiler is not a simple, one-application system, like MacPascal is. The