Re: [fpc-pascal] header translation question: I need an int sized boolean

ily get such an integer sized bool? Leave it as you currently have it. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] === david.w.n...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) === sign

[fpc-pascal] HTML browser for help under Lazarus

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Re: [fpc-pascal] Unit/library for writing data structures to files

Incidentally, from your first message in this thread, you said you were writing an OLAP application. You might care to look at PostgreSQL as a database manager. It does rather nice OLAP functionality, straight out of the box -- and it's free. Regards, Dave [RLU#314465] =====

[fpc-pascal] CPU affinity of TThread descendants

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Re: [fpc-pascal] CPU affinity of TThread descendants

inThread() function of the RTL. However, it could be attributable to the threading library I use with Linux (NPTL, in my case). I shall report back with whatever I find. -- Regar

Re: [fpc-pascal] CPU affinity of TThread descendants

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 21:20 +, David W Noon wrote: [snip] > I have noticed one thing that might shed a little light on the topic: > whenever I use a pipe for the output and I allow the pipe to stall with > a full buffer, after execution is resumed the program sometimes restarts >

[fpc-pascal] Simple question about {$R +}

Hi all, When I use a dynamic array and SetLength(), does the {$R +} option check subscript ranges on that array? -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] === david.w.n...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon

Re: [fpc-pascal] Can I incorporate PDF files?

has XPDF installed? A more widely used option would be Ghostview, but even that cannot be guaranteed. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] =======

Re: [fpc-pascal] Find out local IP adress

perform this, I can send you some via private email. It's up to you to translate it to Pascal. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ======

Re: [fpc-pascal] Syntax problem with first unit

tters being treated the same as capital letters, as even the system commands were punched in capital letters on cards, but typed as lower case from a terminal. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] =======

Re: [fpc-pascal] A complex trouble(at least for me)

5' '05 e-1 pic zzz.' Do you want to put the COBOL source into a TStringList? > Are you trying to write a COBOL compiler? If not, what are you trying to do? -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] === david.w.n..

Re: [fpc-pascal] A complex trouble(at least for me)

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Re: [fpc-pascal] Writeable typed constants - what's the point?

ompiler but produces the current, default semantics. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ======= david.w.n...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) === ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Writeable typed constants - what's the point?

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Re: [fpc-pascal] TFileStream.SetSize sometimes fails

access the file, that ACL *must* stay in place. Likewise, if I have set a security mask to keep other users in my group out of a file, i.e. 0600, that security mask must be preserved. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] === david.w.n...@n

Re: [fpc-pascal] The names of the various FPC documentation

o be escaped or wrapped, so that the shell ignores them and passes them through to the underlying application program -- in this case a PDF reader. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ====

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: getting started with threads

r "downed". This is the original usage of the term "semaphore" in computing. It is largely useless in comparison to the other types of semaphore. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] === david.w.n...@ntlworld.com (Davi

Re: [fpc-pascal] Checking Linux process existence (child or not) without OS command ?

ll the entries can be treated as text files of directories. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] === david.w.n...@ntlworld.com

Re: [fpc-pascal] Early BSD's Pascal system

of California at San Diego) Pascal compiler. It compiled source to p-code and its run-time interpreted the p-code tokens (a la Java, today). Google is your friend. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] === david.w.n...@ntlworld.com

Re: [fpc-pascal] programmatically creating desktop icons under Linux

read: ln -s Actually, there is a symlink() API that can be called without creating a separate address space for an external command. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] === david.w.n...@nt

Re: [fpc-pascal] some new features to delphi prisem

lt;>a),not(a=b)); Mega-yuck!! I can only infer that you don't write C. The C equivalent is: z = a == b ? 1 : 2; It's terse, but one gets used to it. -- Regards, Dave

Re: [fpc-pascal] Which -Op??? parameter is appropriate

uld take a more "lowest common denominator" approach, specifying an 80386 or some such. However, I don't have that problem. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] ====

Re: [fpc-pascal] ReadLine history works in windows/cmd.exe but not in bash/linux

aulted to in the shell and/or the terminal emulator. It has nothing to do with FPC. Try: man 1 bash and see how you can set the options you need. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* david.w.n...@ntlworld.com (

Re: [fpc-pascal] ReadLine history works in windows/cmd.exe but not in bash/linux

are largely independent under all UNIX systems, including Linux. So, if you want the scrollback capabilities you need to use the appropriate API. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

Re: [fpc-pascal] Help translating C++ to Object Pascal

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Re: [fpc-pascal] Optimized matrix multiplication functions for pascal?

ee if somebody might already have done that for you. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* david.w.n...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Detecting what is the linux distro

nd it will handle .deb and .rpm packages, as well as its native Portage ebuilds. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* david.w.n...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-

Re: [fpc-pascal] Detecting what is the linux distro

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:29:42 +0200, Sven Barth wrote about Re: [fpc-pascal] Detecting what is the linux distro: > Am 12.10.2010 14:01, schrieb David W Noon: [snip] > > This is a consequence of using an init process based on the System V > > model. > > ArchLinux does no

Re: [fpc-pascal] Can variables be declared within a block?

open to debate, but at least C and C++ allow the above. That said, short scoping was never a part of original Pascal. I think Jensen & Wirth omitted it because it made the compiler simpler. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-

Re: [fpc-pascal] Can variables be declared within a block?

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Re: [fpc-pascal] Range checking in a for loop

: 1..3; instead, as that range matches the array's bounds. You should then get a range check at compile time. It is also the idiomatic Pascal way of doing this. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] =======

Re: [fpc-pascal] Parsing commandline parameters with wildcards on Linux

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Re: [fpc-pascal] Size of a partition

ge disk on which to test. - -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* david.w.n...@googlemail.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYE

Re: [fpc-pascal] Using Cairo lib on Linux without X

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Re: [fpc-pascal] quality of FPC random

f you don't have a hardware RNG. - -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* david.w.n...@googlemail.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: Gn

Re: [fpc-pascal] is scrypt available?

hing. HTH - -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* david.w.n...@googlemail.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: [fpc-pascal] is scrypt available?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 22:02:23 -0400, Wkitty42 (wkitt...@windstream.net) wrote about "Re: [fpc-pascal] is scrypt available?" (in <562edb2f.4080...@windstream.net>): > On 10/26/2015 06:28 PM, David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> I use

Re: [fpc-pascal] Bitcounting

ngly fast compared to examining each bit. It uses ASCIIZ strings, but can easily be converted to Pascal and AnsiStrings (or whatever). However, I'll leave that to you. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* david.w.n...@go

Re: [fpc-pascal] Missing messages

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