Re: [fpc-pascal] Using built-in serial instead of synaser and the like for Linux console app?

2020-08-21 Thread Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020 20:06:04 +0200, Christo Crause via fpc-pascal wrote: >In my limited experience the FPC serial unit is a bit more low level than >the components such as synaser etc. There is a bit more of a learning >curve and one needs to decide whether to go blocking or not and how to >hand

Re: [fpc-pascal] Using built-in serial instead of synaser and the like for Linux console app?

2020-08-21 Thread Christo Crause via fpc-pascal
On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 12:05 PM Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > So hence my question: > Is there something bad about serial (built-in to fpc) that makes it > unsuitable for use? > In my limited experience the FPC serial unit is a bit more low level than the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Using built-in serial instead of synaser and the like for Linux console app?

2020-08-21 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal wrote: What is the advantage of using synaser over serial in a simple non-gui program running in the console in Linux? I have been struggling making LazSerial work in a console app and been adviced to instead use synaser (which is what lazserial

[fpc-pascal] Using built-in serial instead of synaser and the like for Linux console app?

2020-08-21 Thread Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal
What is the advantage of using synaser over serial in a simple non-gui program running in the console in Linux? I have been struggling making LazSerial work in a console app and been adviced to instead use synaser (which is what lazserial is built on). A few months back it seemingly started to wor

Re: [fpc-pascal] Archive libraries

2020-08-21 Thread Marco Borsari via fpc-pascal
Il 20/08/2020 17:10, Darius Blaszyk via fpc-pascal ha scritto: To my delight I found out that FPC actually provides quite a few archive handling libraries out of the box. Thanks to all that have contributed to that! So far I found: * tar * tar.gz * zip Are there any other formats out there t