[fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-11 Thread Daniel Franzini
Hi all i'm trying to use fpc in a old DOS environment by using FreeDOS inside Virtual PC (guess i should be using vmware) the problem is that i have some low-level code which i would like to port to fpc. FreeDOS came with fpc 2.0.2 which i think is suitable for my needs. 1.) i can't even compil

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-11 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Wed, 10 Jan 2007, schreef Daniel Franzini: > Hi all > > i'm trying to use fpc in a old DOS environment by using FreeDOS inside > Virtual PC (guess i should be using vmware) > > the problem is that i have some low-level code which i would like to port to > fpc. FreeDOS came with fpc 2.0.2 wh

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-11 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 11 jan 2007, at 10:14, Daniël Mantione wrote: This the situation: * The Dos port is without a maintainer. * We are still providing it because many people have need for a Dos version * Bugs in the Dos port are not being fixed so it is of poor quality. That's not true anymore since Pierre

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-11 Thread Tomas Hajny
Daniel Franzini wrote: Hi Daniel, > i'm trying to use fpc in a old DOS environment by using FreeDOS inside > Virtual PC (guess i should be using vmware) I've had difficulties running FPC apps (probably including the compiler itself) under FreeDOS in the past (whereas it works properly with othe

Re: [fpc-pascal] low level disk access under Windows

2007-01-11 Thread Daniel Franzini
well i did not wrote any code like this yet...but i do know that the so-called rawwrite tool used for writing images of boot floppies in windowz env is written in delphi (7 at the moment)... since the sources are open you can browse around and see how things get done http://www.chrysocome.net/r

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-11 Thread Daniel Franzini
On 1/11/07, Daniël Mantione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This the situation: * The Dos port is without a maintainer. * We are still providing it because many people have need for a Dos version * Bugs in the Dos port are not being fixed so it is of poor quality. well, if so i'm a volunteer to m

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-11 Thread Daniel Franzini
welllike i said before, i'm a volunteer to mantain the port...if Pierre does need some sort of help he can call me On 1/11/07, Jonas Maebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11 jan 2007, at 10:14, Daniël Mantione wrote: > This the situation: > * The Dos port is without a maintainer. > * We are

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-11 Thread Daniel Franzini
On 1/11/07, Tomas Hajny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel Franzini wrote: Hi Daniel, Hi I've had difficulties running FPC apps (probably including the compiler itself) under FreeDOS in the past (whereas it works properly with other DOS implementations like MS-DOS, IBM PC DOS and DR-DOS/N

[fpc-pascal] FP IDE in DOS env

2007-01-11 Thread Daniel Franzini
I'm trying to write some pascal code on a DOS env (FreeDOS 1.0). Is the IDE for this plataform mantained?! The command line compiler does run fine, but the IDE shows up and quickly disapears. Has anyone suffered this before?!!?? -- Daniel "Let us change our traditional attitude to the construct

Re: [fpc-pascal] How can i detect what cause the problem

2007-01-11 Thread Daniel Franzini
this happens because windows API code usually have two versions: an Ascii version where chars are 8-bit ASCII (with the suffix A, and used mainly in 9x code) and other where the chars are 2-byte unicode chars with the W suffix, used mainly in 2000/XP stuff (guess W means wide in the sense of wides

Re: [fpc-pascal] FP IDE in DOS env

2007-01-11 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Thu, 11 Jan 2007, schreef Daniel Franzini: > I'm trying to write some pascal code on a DOS env (FreeDOS 1.0). Is the IDE > for this plataform mantained?! The command line compiler does run fine, but > the IDE shows up and quickly disapears. > > Has anyone suffered this before?!!?? I don't k

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC in DOS environment

2007-01-11 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Thu, 11 Jan 2007, schreef Daniel Franzini: > On 1/11/07, Daniël Mantione <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This the situation: > > * The Dos port is without a maintainer. > > * We are still providing it because many people have need for a Dos > > version > > * Bugs in the Dos port are not being