Hello to all,
Although I have been reading this mailing list for years,
I have not been doing much else in this area. Started with standard Pascal on an elderly mainframe about 30 years ago. Was introduced to Borland's Turbo version, then wrote databases for a range of subjects, including a diet plan/record for a fairly large zoo. Interesting, but I then moved to Linux and probably have not written much in Pascal since Delphi 3 was the current version and Topaz was a good package for databases Since hen, I do not remember much.

I looked at Lazarus a year or two ago, found it to be a bit confusing, so did nothing more.

Starting again with an MX-Linux operating system, (derivatIve of Debian), have downloaded FPC 3.0, and slowly (very) remembering what to do. Firstly, 3.0 seems to work very well in Mx-Linux. Have tried the Address Book example, have an executive file that is very fast.

Tried writing a bit of new code, it worked after I had fixed the errors, but then ran into trouble with the file system. Can not activate a dbf, keep being told that the file can not be opened.

Another day tomorrow, will try again.

Gordon.
Tauranga, N.Z.