Hi,

Is it true that in fpc 2.0 the dos unit will be considered obsolete, and people are advised to use for example the sysutils unit?

If true, how can I enumerate the environment variables like I do with the dos unit using EnvCount and EnvStr from the dos unit.

Vincent Snijders.

Vincent Snijders wrote

Hi, Is it true that in fpc 2.0 the dos unit will be considered obsolete, and people are advised to use for example the sysutils unit?

It is true.

If true, how can I enumerate the environment variables like I do with the dos unit using EnvCount and EnvStr from the dos unit.

You currently can not. Most platforms have the envp() pointer available, but this is of course not very user friendly. I have added the

Function EnvironmentVariableCount() : Integer;
Function GetEnvironmentString(Index : Integer) : String;

functions to sysutils. (still needs committing, should be there shortly)

Michael.

Thanks. No need to hurry though. I won't be using them before 1.9.6. ;-)

Vincent.

Release date for 2.0 ?

Release date for 2.0 ?

- When it's finished
- asap
;)

Typical Borland statement!

No, but I prefer to have them ASAP, they can be tested much longer in that case, on all platforms.

I made a small typo, it's

Function GetEnvironmentVariableCount() : Integer;

The following should compile and run:

program testep;
uses sysutils;
Var
  I : Integer;
begin
  For I:=1 to GetEnvironmentVariableCount do
    Writeln(i:3,' : ',GetEnvironmentString(i));
end.

Michael.

Typical Borland statement!

You know those open source guys, all they can do is clone closed source companies... to the last bit ;)

Jonas

Typical Borland statement!

Borland seems to have a very bad project management :)

If we'd know the time we can spent into fpc every week, I could tell you a date :)

04-12-11 12.00, skrev följande:

> Is it true that in fpc 2.0 the dos unit will be considered obsolete, and > people are advised to use for example the sysutils unit? It is true.

Isn't deprecated a better word ? The Dos unit will still be available, I guess ? Otherwise we would break a lot of existing code..

Olle