Re: [fpc-pascal] updating an old DOS tool using PChar strings

2014-02-20 Thread Paul Breneman
On 02/20/2014 01:43 PM, Sven Barth wrote: On 20.02.2014 02:49, waldo kitty wrote: even if you do, trunk with the plain 16-bit msdos support might still do it for you). i've pulled DOS262 with the GO memory extender but have not yet installed it on the system due to other questions not yet pose

Re: [fpc-pascal] updating an old DOS tool using PChar strings

2014-02-20 Thread Sven Barth
On 20.02.2014 02:49, waldo kitty wrote: even if you do, trunk with the plain 16-bit msdos support might still do it for you). i've pulled DOS262 with the GO memory extender but have not yet installed it on the system due to other questions not yet posed... i'm not sure what "trunk with 16 bit

Re: [fpc-pascal] updating an old DOS tool using PChar strings

2014-02-20 Thread Paul Breneman
On 02/20/2014 12:51 PM, waldo kitty wrote: On 2/19/2014 8:30 PM, Paul Breneman wrote: On 02/19/2014 03:06 PM, waldo kitty wrote: ... any help is appreciated and thanks for reading this quite possibly rambling post emanating from my scrambled brain cells... FPC DOS is pretty easy for a consol

Re: [fpc-pascal] updating an old DOS tool using PChar strings

2014-02-20 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/19/2014 8:30 PM, Paul Breneman wrote: On 02/19/2014 03:06 PM, waldo kitty wrote: ... any help is appreciated and thanks for reading this quite possibly rambling post emanating from my scrambled brain cells... FPC DOS is pretty easy for a console program, but it is 32-bit (whereas DOS is

Re: [fpc-pascal] updating an old DOS tool using PChar strings

2014-02-19 Thread Paul Breneman
On 02/19/2014 03:06 PM, waldo kitty wrote: ... any help is appreciated and thanks for reading this quite possibly rambling post emanating from my scrambled brain cells... FPC DOS is pretty easy for a console program, but it is 32-bit (whereas DOS is 16-bit) so it isn't as simple as Turbo Pasc

Re: [fpc-pascal] updating an old DOS tool using PChar strings

2014-02-19 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/19/2014 6:10 PM, Tomas Hajny wrote: On Wed, February 19, 2014 23:58, leledumbo wrote: Well, if you're not using FPC, then asking for non-FPC code here isn't the right way. It's useless to point yout o FPC units that BP7 doesn't have. As you've experienced, ReplaceStr (from StrUtils), String

Re: [fpc-pascal] updating an old DOS tool using PChar strings

2014-02-19 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/19/2014 5:58 PM, leledumbo wrote: Well, if you're not using FPC, then asking for non-FPC code here isn't the right way. It's useless to point yout o FPC units that BP7 doesn't have. this is rather true and i forgot to prefix my subject line with OT... my apologies for that... but i'm no

Re: [fpc-pascal] updating an old DOS tool using PChar strings

2014-02-19 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, February 19, 2014 23:58, leledumbo wrote: > Well, if you're not using FPC, then asking for non-FPC code here isn't the > right way. It's useless to point yout o FPC units that BP7 doesn't have. > As > you've experienced, ReplaceStr (from StrUtils), StringReplace (from > SysUtils) are FPC an

Re: [fpc-pascal] updating an old DOS tool using PChar strings

2014-02-19 Thread leledumbo
Well, if you're not using FPC, then asking for non-FPC code here isn't the right way. It's useless to point yout o FPC units that BP7 doesn't have. As you've experienced, ReplaceStr (from StrUtils), StringReplace (from SysUtils) are FPC and Delphi routines, and BP7 doesn't have those units AFAIK. T

[fpc-pascal] updating an old DOS tool using PChar strings

2014-02-19 Thread waldo kitty
i have an old DOS tool written in BP7 that i'm needing to fix a couple of problems with... the main problem is that it is using an old CStr unit written by a Todd Holmes back in 1993... this unit was written to suppliment the reading and writing of "C strings" to/from streams and converting "C