According to Ronald Perrella:

There are two name in Curses that are different only by their capitalization. One is a variable declared as extern. The other is a function.

Use the `asmname' directive to access them. Their *Pascal* names must of course differ.

example:

/* in C */ extern int COLORS;

extern int colors();

(* in Pascal *)

Var ColorVar: __asmname__ 'COLORS' Integer; Function ColorFunc: Integer; asmname 'colors'; Sorry for the underscores and the different syntax for variables and functions. I already suggested to replace `asmname' with something like `external name', Var ColorVar: Integer; external name 'COLORS'; Function ColorFunc: Integer; external name 'colors'; but I did not yet work on this. (See the GPC list archives, starting with 7 Sep 1996, for a discussion about pros and contras for different ideas for the syntax for external name specification.) Hope this helps, Peter Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [970201] maintainer GNU Pascal - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [970125]