Re: [fpc-pascal]XP=extreme pain in the butt

[A.J. Venter]

Perhaps you should try to run the installer with XP's "windows 98
compatibility mode" - should find that under the properties sheet for
the app - there's a '95 mode as well.

I don't know if this will work/help at all, I don't use windows, a
friend who does pointed it out - but he doesn't code so he obviously
never tried it for FPC.

Ciao
A.J.
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 02:53, Alan Mead wrote:
> Is there a win32 binary install kit for Lazarus?  I see hints that
> Lazarus runs on Win32 but the download folders for Win32 are empty. 
> (Apologies if I'm not supposed to ask about Lazarus here...)
> 
> So I fetched the latest FPC win32 full install ZIP from the US mirror
> but when I clicked on the install, I saw a screen that was basically
> blank (blue background, some top bar and bottom bar text, but nothing
> inside).  Then it disappeared.  Each subsequent double-click just
> disappeared very quickly.  I don't see anything like install.exe
> running in the taskmanager. Any ideas?  FPC installed fine on windows
> 98...
> 
> I have a cheap eMachines XP 2400+ (i.e., 2GHz) Athalon XP machine
> (you know, the one that runs slow as a dog...)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Alan
> 
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Re: [fpc-pascal]XP=extreme pain in the butt

[Matt Emson]

I have installed under XP pro with no issues I recall. Turn off the eye
candy stuff - that might help. Also try installing the Service Pack if you
have not already done so.

Matt


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[fpc-pascal]Re: INET-Unit: Testing existence of a domain?

[Jeff Pohlmeyer]

Maybe a little off-topic, but here is a small example to do 
multiple lookups asynchronously using the "ARES" library:

  http://houston.quik.com/jkp/ares_pas.pp



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Re: [fpc-pascal]several questions

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Date sent:  Tue, 16 Sep 2003 22:44:36 +1000 (EST)

> > Probably another 18 files have already been opened by the OS (device
> > drivers etc)
> 
>I guess that's what's happenning, as when I increased the files it
> worked. It seemed so extravagent that another 18 files would be open
> to run a simple pascal program I didn't even think it worth checking!
> I wonder what all the open files are?

There are tools to find all the open files under DOS and what opened 
them (device drivers, TSRs, etc.); you could probably try to start 
something like that before running your Pascal program, and possibly 
to run it from a test program written in FPC using Dos.Exec to find 
out what exactly gets open by the extender and DPMI server. If you 
need such a tool, I can send it to you (the tool I have is called 
mapfiles.exe, but there are others probably).

> > FPC doesn't use the BIOS functions for drawing text characters in
> > DOS - so the original text attributes should be preserved after
> > exiting for new text.
> 
>Well, it's not, so I don't know what's going on there. I have some
> other computers and other compilers - I might try some mixing and
> matching to see if it's a problem with a specific computer/compiler
> (when I can find some time for this that is! :-( ).

The reason of your problem is very simple, IMHO. BIOS always uses the 
character attributes of the last character on the row when scrolling 
the screen above to add a new row. If you don't change these 
attributes before ending your program, DOS keeps them.

Tomas


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