[fpc-pascal] New to the list; Lots of startup questions

2005-10-08 Thread David Chandler
Hello, I am new to the FPC-Pascal list. I programmed in Borland Pascal in the late 1980's and early 1990's including a DOS star mapping program called Deep Space (see http://www.davidchandler.com). I never made the transition to Object Pascal, Delphi, or a Windows environment. I was wantin

Re: [fpc-pascal] New to the list; Lots of startup questions

2005-10-08 Thread L505
> > Also I did a Hello program that put the output in a DOS screen, which > flashed off immediately. I got it to stay open by waiting for input > using the keypressed function in the CRT unit. Is there some other way? You can call readln; to pause the program. Also, in windows, you can ru

Re: [fpc-pascal] New to the list; Lots of startup questions

2005-10-08 Thread Jilani Khaldi
Hello David, My main problem getting started with FPC has been general logistics operating in a Windows environment. I have an icon to open FPC on my desktop. If I have the programs I am working on in various directories called c:\project1, c:\project2, etc., how do I configure the Option