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Title: FpSystools

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1	+	## Free Pascal SysTools Package
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3	+	### About
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5	+	This package is a conversion of TurboPower SysTools for Kylix Version 1.01 to FPC/Lazarus. The conversion process was started on June 12, 2003 and initially completed on June 17,2003
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7	+	### Status: Alpha
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9	+	With this release, all of the units compile and most are probably working. I've flagged any changes I've made with a //TL tag. If there were issues, I added one or more ! to TL. You can grep through the code and selectively list these areas using the tags. Serious, functionality breaking problems have two or more !!.
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11	+	Out of over the 50,000+ lines of code in the library there are about 130 instances of serious errors that need to be fixed... and these probably comprise a set of about a dozen types. Once these are solved, the solution can be applied to others in its class.
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13	+	All of the units were converted in the 1.01 release except 2... which were the barcode or StSystem units. The barcode I/O seemed to have printing and QT dependencies that I didn't think were resolvable with a reasonable amount of effort. The system unit had a LOT of problems compiling and didn't seem to offer anything that wasn't already done better in the existing FPC Linux unit.
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15	+	### Author
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17	+	This package was created and generously made available to the open source community by [TurboPower Software](http://sourceforge.net/projects/tpsystoolskylix/)
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19	+	Initial conversion to Lazarus and Free Pascal by Tom Lisjac.
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21	+	### License
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23	+	Site says "GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL), Mozilla Public License 1.1 (MPL 1.1)". Code headers mostly show MPL 1.1
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25	+	### Download
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27	+	The latest release of FpSystools can be found on the [Lazarus CCR Files page](http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=92177&release_id=193574).
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29	+	### Change Log
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31	+	Most of the common changes that were needed for FPC conversion were:
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33	+	- Prefixing function parameters with an "@"
34	+	- Commenting out the critical section code... there were ifdefs around them but I didn't try to use them. This needs to be revisited and updated in the next pass.
35	+	- FPC claimed duplicate ID's in a lot of method declarations that Delphi/Kylix obviously didn't worry about. I approached this, for better or worse, by adding a 1 suffix to the identifier in the declarations... and then fixing up the implementations. All are flagged for and should be reviewed.
36	+	- The Libc unit was changed to Linux in all cases
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38	+	### Getting the latest source from CVS
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40	+	`cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lazarus-ccr login`
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42	+	(press the Enter key when prompted for a password)
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44	+	`cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/lazarus-ccr co fpsystools`
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46	+	This package is also available from the Free Pascal Compiler CVS in projects/contrib/fpsystools
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48	+	### Dependencies / System Requirements
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50	+	There's a lot of in-line assembler... so most of the code is currently bound to the i386 platform. (Some of the assembler constructs are broken under FPC and need to be fixed.)
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52	+	### Installation
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54	+	Un-tar the file, cd to the directory and make.
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56	+	---
57	+	From the Free Pascal wiki, page "FpSystools", as it stood on 2015-02-08 after a change by BlaiseP, out of the wiki's dump of 2024-05-26. Copyright stays with the author who wrote it, according to the old wiki's [[Licensing]] page. If you have concerns about this material, [message the admin](/wiki-contact).
58	+	Category: Components

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