Am 09.03.2012 10:24, schrieb max:
You seem to know your way around, Bernd, don't you! Well, I've tried xterm -hold -e /my/program : the xterm-window pops up and stays with nothing in it at all: no error and no program output [which should be there]: seems to me that the program isn't being run at all! That is if it is compiled with fpc 2.4.0 Compiled with fpc 1.9.4 there indeed is the usual program putput ! My prog. uses the crt,unix,keyboard units from rtl, does some disk i/o and some window x/y cursor positioning. It's supposed to run on a console so it needs the xterm in X11 . With your suggested 'Hello World' prog there is no difference between fpc 1.9 and 2.4 and this works.
Hmm... so it might be that there was some change in the Crt or Keyboard unit that changed the behavior.
But do not bother any longer, Bernd: you've shown me a way around [ even if you've never intended this ] and I'm happy with that. My general wish for the compiler programmer would be that old versions would still be available and installable in the future as new versions sometimes show strange behaviours on old prorgams [ this has happened before when the internal representations of real numbers were altered leaving my old data files unreadable]
Releases older then (AFAIK) 2.2.2 were removed, because of possible copyright infringement. This might apply to 1.9.4 as well.
Regards, Sven _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
