Subj : Pascal rolecall!
To   : James Coyle
From : mark lewis
Date : Mon Apr 08 2013 16:19:36

 VC> Used to, last was re-issuing FileMgr now left on sourceforge as 
 VC> Open Source. Written in TP. Did consider migrating it over to Free 
 VC> Pascal but decided it was to complex for my old brain !!

 JC> Free Pascal isn't so bad coming from TP.  They have a lot of nearly
 JC> compatible Units that work like TP counterparts (DOS, CRT, etc). 
 JC> Those units can really help soften the transition.

yup!

 JC> I think you can find a lot of similar string functions in SysUtils
 JC> (to help replace all of those TP assembler string functions that
 JC> just about everyone was using back in the day!)

you can say that again... it seems like they took all of those additional 
library routines that we all used to reinvent and such and placed them into the 
library that comes with FPC so that you don't have to reinvent the wheel 
again...

the bigest problem i'm having is uninventing that wheel... finding the routines 
that are duplicated and using the new one that comes with FPC... the trouble is 
that the names are not always close or similar... i've even come acrossed a few 
that have the same name but the variables are passed differently and/or the new 
routine doesn't do what the old one did... there's a lot of code diving that 
has to be done to make sure everything gets converted correctly ;)

i've slowly been working on converting mark may's mksmg library to FPC...

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