Re: [fpc-pascal] Sample unit code

2009-04-04 Thread Pete Cervasio
On Saturday 04 April 2009 11:40:03 Francisco Reyes wrote: > > I guess I could try one unit at a time until I find a simple one, but I > figure if anyone knows of a simple unit that may be easy to read, that may > be a better starting point. Here's a simple unit that may help. I have occasion to a

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fstat usage

2008-12-08 Thread Pete Cervasio
On Monday 08 December 2008 10:22:25 Francisco Reyes wrote: > Francisco Reyes writes: > > Trying the fstat function and don't seem to be getting the right values > > for ctime, mtime and atime. Those values are Unix timestamp values. You need to convert them into TDateTime values. Look for UnixT

Re: [fpc-pascal] Windows unit and SyncObjs unit clash

2008-03-26 Thread Pete Cervasio
On Wednesday 26 March 2008 08:51:53 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 26/03/2008, Marco van de Voort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hmm, didn't older (<6) versions simply have this, and did synobjs get > > introduced later? In that case, if Delphi can break compat, so can we. > > I think I still have

Re: [fpc-pascal] unit system;  procedure move();

2008-03-17 Thread Pete Cervasio
On Monday 17 March 2008 06:40:51 Jonas Maebe wrote: > On 17 Mar 2008, at 12:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is the use of the move procedure right? The array length is > > Maximum-1. When I > > put this length on value[1], the last entry value[Maximum-1] would > > be deleted > > or would be shifte

Re: [fpc-pascal] syscalls and fpc

2008-02-16 Thread Pete Cervasio
On Saturday 16 February 2008 14:55:24 ik wrote: > On Feb 16, 2008 10:03 PM, Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ik schrieb: > > > 1. There is a support only for up to 6 parameters (plus the instruction > > > itself). > > > > Which syscall has more parameters? > > I don't know, but then

Re: [fpc-pascal] PASCAL programming for Novice

2007-06-09 Thread Pete Cervasio
On Saturday 09 June 2007 18:46:17 Francisco Reyes wrote: > Daniël Mantione writes: > > It doesn't look for .p by default. Rename to .pas or .pp. > > Ok thanks. > Using .p because that is what vim checks for. Will figure out how to change > vim to look for .pp for the coloring. Contents of $HOME/.v

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC only 32 bits?

2007-06-06 Thread Pete Cervasio
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 18:26:15 Francisco Reyes wrote: > Henry Vermaak writes: > > also make sure that the compiler can find > > your binutils (put it on the path). > > I don't see a directory by that name. Is the directory called something > other than binutils? I don't think I can help with

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to get UTC time

2007-02-13 Thread Pete Cervasio
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 14:25, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > for me. It needs both the SysUtils and Libc units, which I'm already > > using for other declarations anyway. > > Libc is a legacy unit, better use the proper (portable) units, and you'll > spare yourself a libc dependancy, AND make

Re: [fpc-pascal] How to get UTC time

2007-02-13 Thread Pete Cervasio
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 03:37, Michel Meunier wrote: > I work on a program wich need the UTC time, and this program will run > with Windows and Linux. > So how is it possible to calculate the UTC time under these two OS. Hello, Michel. I do not program under Windows, so I cannot answer that

Re: [fpc-pascal] [SYSTEM]: How detecting if run as root ?

2006-10-11 Thread Pete Cervasio
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 20:44, Michalis Kamburelis wrote: > Pete Cervasio wrote: > > The better way would be to use the geteuid function in the libc unit, > > It would be even better to use FpGetEUid function from the BaseUnix > unit. See > [http://www.freepascal.org/d

Re: [fpc-pascal] [SYSTEM]: How detecting if run as root ?

2006-10-11 Thread Pete Cervasio
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 19:37, Andrew Haines wrote: > TOUZEAU DAVID wrote: > > Dear > > > > I need to detect if the program is executed as root privileges on Linux > > system. > > Did somebody had developped a such function ?? > > > > Best regards. > > Well you can try GetEnv('USER') = 'root';

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Threads executing in sequence instead of parallel

2006-10-02 Thread Pete Cervasio
On Friday 29 September 2006 04:57, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > > Below is a text (console) thread demo. The one thread counts from 0 to > 1k and the other thread counts down from 1k to 0. Again, under Linux, > one thread executes and teminates, then the next thread executes and > terminates. Greet