Subj : Re: Still here To : Tony Langdon From : mark lewis Date : Sun Apr 19 2020 09:57 am Re: Re: Still here By: Tony Langdon to Dan Clough on Sun Apr 19 2020 12:23:00 TL> Yeah, I've generally only used units like Crt, which FP does actually TL> have, so this isn't an issue for me. that unit should only be used in certain specific cases... generally speaking, it isn't needed for most code... TL> But what will be a longer learning curve is taking advantage of today's TL> network environment - how to communicate over IP (v4 and v6) and manage TL> TCP, UDP, etc. There's been more than a few times I've wanted a simple TL> network daemon, but I don't have the necessary knowledge to do that in TL> any language. the libs are already written... all you have to do it use them and add your code to manipulate the data sent/received as desired... when i was going more pascal coding than i am now, i spent a good part of the time stripping out my custom routines because they already exist in the available libraries... i also spent a lot of time ripping out my custom ASM code because it was easier to use the pascal versions that did the same plus had more features than my speciality code did... where i spent a lot of time writing a pascal version of the C time_t routines, those were also ripped out because there are more and easier to use time routines than what my lowlevel ones provided... direct memory addressing like reading the BIOS serial and parallel port addresses and writing directly to video RAM are not used any more... the OS simply won't let you have access to the hardware any more... using the TP mode does allow almost all old TP code to be compiled but you'll definitely have to rip direct memory addressing stuff out and find other routines to replace many commercial libs you may have used... some of those old commercial routines are now open and already rewritten and included with FPC and/or Lazarus... )\/(ark --- SBBSecho 3.10-Linux * Origin: SouthEast Star Mail HUB - SESTAR (1:3634/12) .