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fpc-pascal · 2003-05

1. exceptions

   Where can I find detailed information about all the predefined Exception classes and their semantics? I found it a bit surprising that byte-variable overflow does not…

   AJAdam Naumowicz, Jonas Maebe5-30-2003 11:39 UTC
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2. Dynamic Arrays of objects

   Thanks for the answers, I have some troubles with the mail provider, I can send but I cannot receive mail and with the webmail i cannot get some mail bodies, so, I'll…

   Jjordi5-30-2003 10:13 UTC
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3. Dynamic array of objects

   Hi, I need something like a dynamic array of objects, easy to manipulate each object and field. Is TStream and TCollection what I need, or maybe TList is enough, maybe…

   JMUjordi, Michael Van Canneyt, Unknown author5-30-2003 09:46 UTC
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4. Warning: TStrings.IndexOf() behaviour changed.

   A warning: For those using the Classes unit from the FCL. There has been a relatively important change in the behaviour of the TStrings class. The IndexOf() method is…

   UUnknown author5-30-2003 06:27 UTC
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5. Need a help.

   I would like to know the formulae used by the random number generator of Free Pascal, especially for using this algorithm in cryptanalysis. Christian jusak…

   CFLchristian jusak, Florian Klaempfl, Lee5-28-2003 15:31 UTC
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6. how to find out if a TProcess was killed

   If I start a TProcess and the process is being killed by the system (for example, because it runs amok and allocates too much mem) the ExitStatus is 0. How can I find…

   MMMattias Gaertner, Michael Van Canneyt5-27-2003 12:17 UTC
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7. test

   JJames Mills5-24-2003 03:45 UTC
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8. DivByZero

   I'd like to know whether there is some reason standing behind the fact that dividing a Real variable by 0 raises EDivByZero when compiled with FPC 1.0.6 on Linux, but…

   AAdam Naumowicz5-23-2003 09:54 UTC
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9. Just curious, is it possible to compile FreePascal under cygwin

   I am just curious if it is possible to compile FreePascal under cygwin environment. Reason.... since Lazarus is heavily developed using Linux (and only usable under this…

   UPVUnknown author, Peter Vreman, Vincent Snijders5-21-2003 06:58 UTC
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10. I don't make compile

    Hi! I have Mandrake Linux 9.1, 1.3 GH CPU, 320 MB RAM, and a new install fpc. I maked it the rpm package. I have a problem when I compile the program source. I don't now…

    GJPGonye Head, Jonas Maebe, Peter Vreman5-20-2003 20:08 UTC
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11. Compiler error on TProcess.Create

    Trying to use the TProcess object of fpc 1.0.6 for Win32 on Win2k and I've studied the process.txt file found in the FCL win32 source directory but can't get past a…

    RMRRonald L Fox, Michael Van Canneyt, Ronald Fox5-20-2003 10:25 UTC
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12. Black-listing.

    I tried to send a post to this list, but my other ISP seems to have black-listed this host. Please how can I determine which UNITS are currently accessible to the USES…

    Ggeoff5-20-2003 08:50 UTC
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13. How to get GMT time?

    I just found that there're some functions in glibc: struct tm * gmtime(const time_t * t); tme_t timegm(strut tm *tp); char * asctime(struct tm *tp); char * ctime(struct…

    ZZhong Wang5-20-2003 07:21 UTC
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14. How to get current UTC time?

    Hello, everybody I need to convert my local time to UTC time, who can provide a usable method? mili _________________________________________________________ Do You…

    ZZhong Wang5-20-2003 06:06 UTC
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15. ReAlloc Question

    Can any problems with stringsclass.pas ? Reason I ask is that, yes my fairly large program works that uses dynamic memory allocation, however it has memory leaks galore!…

    JMPJames Mills, Michael Van Canneyt, paradice5-19-2003 07:02 UTC
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16. Issues regarding available memory

    I need to handle arbitrarily-large datafiles. So I need to detect the amount of memory want my code to run on Linux and Windows. Given that the heap grows, how can I…

    AJPAlan Mead, Jonas Maebe, Peter Vreman5-17-2003 13:41 UTC
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17. Comunicate with a daemon

    I am playing with the example "daemon.pp" and I find it very interesting as base for an application server. My question is how to comunicate with the daemon using an…

    JJUJilani Khaldi, James Mills, Unknown author5-17-2003 10:31 UTC
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18. Reading from stdin-pipe (bug?).

    Consider this code and tell me if this is a bug (under win32): -------------------------------------------------------------------- Program RedirTest; var textstr:…

    AUArne Hanssen, Unknown author5-17-2003 09:57 UTC
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19. Unit to read/parse configuration file

    One more question: My data analysis program needs to parse a "command file" to set options, identify variables, determine which statistics to compute, etc. I combed the…

    AMOAlan Mead, Marco van de Voort, Olaf Leidinger5-16-2003 21:43 UTC
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20. Representing data

    Tell me if this is not an appropriate question for this list. I was thrilled to find out how mature FPC had become (thanks!) and I'm using Pascal again. But I find that…

    AJAlan Mead, John Coppens5-16-2003 15:19 UTC
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21. FPC Heap Allocation/Deallocation

    Does the Heap manager on FPC release memory that's freed or keeps it there ? My program loads up flat file databases (obviously bad but...) which seems to chew up over…

    JJJames Mills, Jonas Maebe5-16-2003 13:33 UTC
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22. SDL issues

    I tried mail Daniel Moissette first, but his e-mail bounces. SDL4Freepascal does not appear to work with the latest versions of SDL. Everything compiles just fine, but…

    AJMA.J. Venter, James Mills, Marco van de Voort5-13-2003 15:36 UTC
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23. Fwd: Incoming FPC version ?

    Begin forwarded message:

    JCJJonas Maebe, chris_94100, James Mills5-13-2003 07:53 UTC
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24. SDL JEDI (Apparently supports FreePascal)

    In the previous thread about 'SDL Issues' we were talking quite a lot about the need of a good up-to-date SDL port for FreePascal. It was suggested that the Jedi support…

    JMUJames Mills, Michael Van Canneyt, Unknown author5-12-2003 14:31 UTC
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25. Re: Constructor failing...

    So it is a 1.1-only construct ? How do you use it ? Olle

    OOlle Raab5-12-2003 13:45 UTC
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26. Memory Usage

    I'd like to know why one of my programs pircsrv written in FPC uses up so much memory. 107Mb of virtual memory (so it seems) and 7Mb of data. Here is the top stats...…

    JFJJames Mills, Florian Klaempfl, Jonas Maebe5-12-2003 11:14 UTC
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27. fpcmake

    Do I need the FPC sources installed in order to even use fpcmake ? $ fpcmake -v Processing Makefile.fpc Targets: "linux" Globals: FPCDIR = "/usr/lib/fpc/1.0.6"…

    JPJames Mills, Peter Vreman5-12-2003 10:55 UTC
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28. Interfaces, What am I doing wrong?

    I'm trying to learn how to use Interfaces. I'm going by Delphi's documentation. I know that I'm ignoring GUIDs but as far as I can tell from the docs there not vital. …

    JSUJon Sawyer, Sebastian Günther, Unknown author5-12-2003 10:11 UTC
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29. Valgrind, Electric-Fence

    Can either of these tools valgrind or electricfence be linked in with fpc programs ? I would if possible like to link in electricfence with some of my fpc programs (as…

    JPJames Mills, Peter Vreman5-12-2003 08:56 UTC
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30. Graphics. Unit.

    Thank you to Jonas for your kind reply dated 9th May. I have SuSE 8.0 and Debian 3.0 Linux distros. The Debian is more recent than the SuSE since it has "fpc" rather than

    GBJgeoff bagley, Brad Campbell, James Mills5-12-2003 03:33 UTC
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31. Help with GTK for windows

    Hi after many downloads, I still cant find the GTK dll for windows. I have downlaoded almost all the files from GIMP but it is still missing. Could anyone tell me where…

    DODean JOLLY, Olaf Leidinger5-9-2003 18:34 UTC
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32. Graphics Unit.

    I have free pascal running nicely on Debian 3.0 (Woody) Linux. I would like to plot graphs like I used to do using Turbo Pascal 7.0 using the Borland "graph" unit. Which…

    GJgeoff bagley, Jonas Maebe5-9-2003 18:18 UTC
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33. Writing a file splitter for very large files.

    I need to write a method to split very large files (8Gb and up) into chunks which can later be concatenated back into the orriginal. The chunks would need to CD-Size…

    AJJA.J. Venter, James Mills, Jim Wilson5-7-2003 16:36 UTC
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34. error on compiling example

    I have download FPC 1.0.6 (BIG file). Then extract the file and install using: #sh install.sh When compile the example/forms on Linux box I've got an error:…

    Jjagad5-7-2003 15:41 UTC
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35. Databases and FPC

    I dunno if any of you have ever written an entire IRC Services in FPC before, but for the past few months I've been porting my 5 year old windows (delphi) version to…

    JAJJames Mills, A.J. Venter, Jilani Khaldi5-7-2003 07:54 UTC
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36. How to work with images?

    Hello! What I want to do all the time, but I never found out HOW to do that, is working with pictures on a LINUX server. Note: I do not want to display them (make some…

    RPRainer Hantsch, Peter Vreman5-6-2003 18:25 UTC
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37. Dowload problems on freepascal ftp site and mirrors

    There seems to be a strange problem with the freepascal FTP site, as well as mirrors. I tested both ftp://www.us.freepascal.org and ftp://www.nl.freepascal.org While I…

    AJA.J. Venter, Jeff Pohlmeyer5-6-2003 10:30 UTC
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38. Question to the offical fpc book

    Hello I whant to know, if the docs shipped with fpc 1.0.6 are the same like in the offical fpc book anvalible in stores. Make it sense to buy it, because the docs ar…

    KAFKarim Forsthofer, A.J. Venter, Florian Klaempfl5-6-2003 01:49 UTC
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39. File errors

    How do you check for file errors such as "Disk Full" before attempting to write out a file to disk ? You can easily check if a file exists with the fileExists function...

    JFJJames Mills, Florian Klaempfl, Jilani Khaldi5-5-2003 13:35 UTC
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40. downloading docs from ftp.freepascal...

    -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I'm trying to download the HTML version of the docs and the ftp site seems to always refuse connection... Is this normal ?…

    SJKSilviu Cojocaru, Jonas Maebe, Karim Forsthofer5-2-2003 20:36 UTC
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41. ftp.freepascal.org

    What's wrong withftp.freepascal.org ? Is it always refusing connections ? Registered Linux user #298569 If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a…

    UUnknown author5-2-2003 16:38 UTC
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