Re: [fpc-pascal] fpc book :)

2008-01-24 Thread Anthony W.Henry
On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 15:11 -0500, Anthony W.Henry wrote: > I don't mean to step on Jeff Duntemann's toes but it > looks like he is going to release that book. > > Read his blog entry for Jan 24th. > > http://www.duntemann.com/Diary.htm > > > Anthony

[fpc-pascal] fpc book :)

2008-01-24 Thread Anthony W.Henry
I don't mean to step on Jeff Duntemann's toes but it looks like he is going to release that book. Read his blog entry for Jan 24th. http://www.duntemann.com/Diary.htm Anthony ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://list

Re: [fpc-pascal] Accessing ROM BIOS Font in Linux.

2008-01-19 Thread Anthony W.Henry
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 13:19 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Anthony W.Henry wrote: > > > I really don't have to worry about the few Kilobytes > > it will add to the program file :). Anyone know any good > > GPL'd or Public Domain bit fonts ? > > Re

Re: [fpc-pascal] ncurses extra package

2008-01-18 Thread Anthony W.Henry
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 12:02 +0100, Guillermo Martínez Jiménez wrote: > Hello everybody. > > Recently I asked myself if Free Pascal has support for ncurses and > I've found it as an extra package. There is also an ncrt unit. If all your looking at is the ability to run the program on different

Re: [fpc-pascal] Accessing ROM BIOS Font in Linux.

2008-01-18 Thread Anthony W.Henry
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 15:32 +, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > >> The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have > >> to be root ?How do I make the 16 bit segment/offset address > >> into a 32 bit pointer to access these fonts ? > > > > This fon

Re: [fpc-pascal] Accessing ROM BIOS Font in Linux.

2008-01-18 Thread Anthony W.Henry
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:47 +0100, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Vinzent Hoefler wrote: > > > On Thursday 17 January 2008 01:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have > > > to be root ? > > > > Yes. Yes. > > > > "

Re: [fpc-pascal] Accessing ROM BIOS Font in Linux.

2008-01-18 Thread Anthony W.Henry
On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 11:48 +0100, Vinzent Hoefler wrote: > On Thursday 17 January 2008 01:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The question. Is this font accessible from linux; do I have > > to be root ? > > Yes. Yes. > > "/dev/mem" should be the raw memory device (where even the BIOS "image"