[fpc-pascal] Advantages page in website

2008-10-31 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
hello, What happened to the advantages page in the Free Pascal website? It used to be: http://www.freepascal.org/advantage.html I would like to reference it from an article, but it seams to be removed. Why? Maybe it could be added back? thanks, -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho __

Re: [fpc-pascal] Advantages page in website

2008-10-31 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What happened to the advantages page in the Free Pascal website? > > It used to be: http://www.freepascal.org/advantage.html I got no idea why it's gone, but you can get to it via the "Web Archive" site. htt

Re: [fpc-pascal] Advantages page in website

2008-10-31 Thread Vincent Snijders
Graeme Geldenhuys schreef: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What happened to the advantages page in the Free Pascal website? It used to be: http://www.freepascal.org/advantage.html I got no idea why it's gone, but you can get to it via th

[fpc-pascal] cross os symbolic link handling

2008-10-31 Thread Marc Santhoff
Hi, is there any function or set of functions for handling symbolic links inside the file system at an os independant level in fpcs libraries? Unix-like systems have soft symlinks (Linux, FreeBSD), Windows has .lnk files upt to XP and AFAIR Windows Vista has some other stuff I don't know about ye

Re: [fpc-pascal] cross os symbolic link handling

2008-10-31 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Marc Santhoff wrote: > Hi, > > is there any function or set of functions for handling symbolic links > inside the file system at an os independant level in fpcs libraries? > > Unix-like systems have soft symlinks (Linux, FreeBSD), Windows has .lnk > files upt to XP and AFA

Re: [fpc-pascal] Advantages page in website

2008-10-31 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 31 Oct 2008, at 12:29, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: What happened to the advantages page in the Free Pascal website? It used to be: http://www.freepascal.org/advantage.html I would like to reference it from an article, but it seams to be removed. Why? Because it was written in a qu

Re: [fpc-pascal] cross os symbolic link handling

2008-10-31 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Freitag, den 31.10.2008, 18:43 +0100 schrieb Michael Van Canneyt: > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2008, Marc Santhoff wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > is there any function or set of functions for handling symbolic links > > inside the file system at an os independant level in fpcs libraries? > > > > Unix-like s