Re: [fpc-pascal]Heaptrace problem?

2003-09-24 Thread Vincent Snijders
On Sun, 21 Sep 2003 21:27:47 +1200 "paradice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - > > Just wondering if anyone else had has problems with the "heaptrace" > option on 1.0.10? > (This only applies to Win32, and for me, only appears on WinME and not > WinXP...) > > I have created a 60-line example pr

Re: [fpc-pascal]building a command string

2003-09-24 Thread DONALD PEDDER
> The plus concatenates strings, Okay, I see. > Basically you can always do this: > Writeln('Hello, ' + 'world!'); > Writeln('Hello, ', 'world!'); > and they do the same thing. I don't think I've ever seen the former. This is useful stuff to know! :-) > P.S. find a good book about p

[fpc-pascal]Heaptrace problem?

2003-09-24 Thread paradice
Hi - Just wondering if anyone else had has problems with the "heaptrace" option on 1.0.10? (This only applies to Win32, and for me, only appears on WinME and not WinXP...) I have created a 60-line example program that illustrates the problem: http://www.paradicesoftware.com/exceptz.pas (the pro

Re: [fpc-pascal]building a command string

2003-09-24 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
DONALD PEDDER wrote: Exec(GetEnv('COMSPEC'), '/c copy '+ParamStr(1)+' '+ParamStr(1)+'.bak /v'); Now THIS is what I needed to know! Thank you. :-) I originally tried a writeln kind of syntax - '/c copy ',paramstr(1),' ',paramstr(1),'.bak /v' - but that didn't work, hence my other attempts to

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

2003-09-24 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Alan Mead wrote: > > --- "A.J. Venter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [Alan explains that the install crashes on his new XP machine] > > > Perhaps you should try to run the installer with XP's "windows 98 > > compatibility mode" - should find that under the properties sheet