I finished reading my old pascal book and reading up on PDFs from the site.

Was wondering how would I find features unique to FPC that my old Pascal book would not have... Basically features that I would not to look for, but that are helpfull. ie.. I remembered exception handling (try except...) and went looking for it on the web site.

Last I worked with "pure" Pascal was back in the Turbo Pascal days and even then did only "hobby" level use of Pascal. After that I did 2 years of Delphi.. some 5+ years ago. A financial app.

How about usefull units that "newbies" like myself may not be aware.

The FreeBSD port installed many units already which I plan to explore as needed.

fpc-fcl-2.0.4_2 Free Pascal Component Library
fpc-fv-2.0.4 FreeVision is a Free Pascal unit for Delphi support fpc-gdbint-2.0.4 Free Pascal unit providing interface to gdb fpc-graph-2.0.4 Free Pascal interface to graphical applications fpc-hash-2.0.4 Free Pascal unit for MD5 hash routines fpc-ibase-2.0.4_1 Free Pascal interface to interbase fpc-libasync-2.0.4 Free Pascal interface to async library fpc-mysql-2.0.4_1 Free Pascal interface to MySQL fpc-netdb-2.0.4 Pure-pascal netdb implementation fpc-odbc-2.0.4_1 Free Pascal interface to ODBC
fpc-oracle-2.0.4_1 Free Pascal interface to Oracle fpc-pasjpeg-2.0.4 Handling JPEG files with Pascal fpc-paszlib-2.0.4 Free Pascal unit for native compression IO fpc-postgres-2.0.4_1 Free Pascal interface to PostGreSQL fpc-pthreads-2.0.4 Free Pascal wraper for the pthreads library fpc-regexpr-2.0.4 Free Pascal regular expression routines fpc-sqlite-2.0.4_1 Free Pascal interface to SQLite fpc-utils-2.0.4 Free Pascal Compiler utils

I am glad the port maintainer went through the trouble to make this package with so many commonly usefull units.