Text 469, 50 rader
Skriven 2013-04-13 14:01:57 av Vince Coen (2:250/1)
    Kommentar till text 467 av James Coyle (1:129/215)
Ärende: Pascal rolecall!
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Hello James!

12 Apr 13 19:04, you wrote to me:

 VC>> I did take a look at mystic and at one point had a test system up
 VC>> but now a days will not use any programs unless I have the
 VC>> source. If nothing else in case I wish to tinker but more
 VC>> importantly so the code can be checked for holes

 > Mystic is open source. :)

Oh, I have not seen a location for the current releases of the source code.

I am looking for what others have done regarding a file description editor.

 > I've done quite a bit of the TP to FPC dance over the years, so if
 > anyone has questions or problems maybe I can offer insight based on my
 > experiences or something?

I have release FileMgr to Open source some 4-5 years ago in sourceforge but
have no idea of the volume of downloads but I suspect not many.
It uses a fair few assembler modules as well as inline code and my Pascal 
these
days is very rusty.

It does not help that my eyes have a problem that really restricts close
looking at the monitor at times so I am limited to when I can do any
programming these days and at the moment I am trying to issue a new release of
my Accounting Software that was written in Cobol using the Open Cobol 
compiler.
Coming to think about it more to do with rewritting the manuals for the 
various
system and that is taking far longer than it would normally .



You are more than welcome to download FileMgr and have a quick look as it 
could
well link into Mystic for file processing / tossing etc.

The primary issues are get rid of the assembler and more that processing back
into Pascal. Obviously when originally written the functionality was not
available in Pascal units but hopefully all that has changed with FPC.
With that done I am 'assuming' migration should be very simple and that would
allow Filemgr to be easily made available for the different platforms.

Vince

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