Re: [fpc-pascal] Hardware

2006-08-22 Thread A.J. Venter
a single interface with platform specific code to retrieve it. It's on my TODO list :) A.J. -- there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com

Re: [fpc-pascal] exiting a program more friendly way

2006-06-23 Thread A.J. Venter
know a lot don't) mail me offlist, I have a copy. A.J. -- there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103

Re: [fpc-pascal] Daemon doesn't work right at boottime.

2006-06-03 Thread A.J. Venter
or by hand ? Any ideas ? -- there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103

Re: [fpc-pascal] Comparing version numbers

2006-06-03 Thread A.J. Venter
as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc

Re: [fpc-pascal] Comparing version numbers

2006-06-02 Thread A.J. Venter
- Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Comparing version numbers

2006-06-02 Thread A.J. Venter
of the monitor - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc

Re: [fpc-pascal] Comparing version numbers

2006-06-02 Thread A.J. Venter
; -- there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 ___ fpc-pascal

[fpc-pascal] Daemon doesn't work right at boottime.

2006-06-01 Thread A.J. Venter
a bug by sitting in front of the monitor - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http

Re: [fpc-pascal] Daemon doesn't work right at boottime.

2006-06-01 Thread A.J. Venter
; -- there's nothing as inspirational for a hacker as a cat obscuring a bug by sitting in front of the monitor - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 ___ fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] Daemon doesn't work right at boottime.

2006-06-01 Thread A.J. Venter
of the monitor - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: fpc-pascal Digest, Vol 19, Issue 24

2006-03-16 Thread A.J. Venter
in front of the monitor - Boudewijn Rempt A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman

[fpc-pascal] Better random numbers ?

2006-02-26 Thread A.J. Venter
talking literally every few milliseconds here. -- A.J. Venter Chief Software Architect OpenLab International www.getopenlab.com www.silentcoder.co.za +27 82 726 5103 ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman

Re: [fpc-pascal] Interactive SHELL?

2006-02-16 Thread A.J. Venter
readkey and echowing back a * during password input. I will have to do it another way. Maybe not, depending on what OS you are working for, try using ncrt instead, I am pretty sure ncurses does NOT use raw mode so it may work. A.J. -- A.J. Venter Chief Software Architext OpenLab International

Re: [fpc-pascal] Simple hello world fails on freebsd

2005-07-23 Thread A.J. Venter
Okay, feel free to ignore it, turns out my freebsd jail is on an amd-64 cpu, not an i386. A.J. On Sunday 24 July 2005 00:35, A.J. Venter wrote: Hi all, this is my first attempt at using freepascal on freebsd, I installed it from the tarball, installing everything, but I can't compile ANYTHING

Re: [fpc-pascal] Paths on different OS's

2005-07-14 Thread A.J. Venter
for the OS you're compiling to. A.J. -- A.J. Venter Lead Developer - Direq International +27 82 726 5103 Fax: 0866542898 http://direq.org http://silentcoder.co.za ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman

Re: [fpc-pascal] Something like Is a number?

2005-07-09 Thread A.J. Venter
You can use val(str, int/real, err) if err is 0, the string was converted to an integer or real (depending on the type of int/real. John Thank you, it's working!!! Yes that's the old Pascal version of StrToInt :) and it had errorchecking :) Just for the record, like everything it has

[fpc-pascal] Wrapping libInkLevel

2005-07-07 Thread A.J. Venter
Hi, I've been trying to create a wrapper for libinklevel, h2pas with a fairly standard set of options ran fine, the wrapper compiled once I commented a double-definition for PInk_level, but on trying to use it, it throws a stack exception: I include the translated header file below, maybe

Re: [fpc-pascal] Free Pascal soom will land in Italy!

2004-10-07 Thread A.J. Venter
. Let's spear Free Pascal! Jilani ___ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal -- A.J Venter Lead Developer, DireqLearn 082 726 5103 http://www.direqlearn.org http://www.direqlearn.net/olce

Re: [fpc-pascal]linux question

2004-09-21 Thread A.J. Venter
that's the EVIL way. Try BACK=`/sbin/prgA` B) how does prgA report the output back, using a simple write statement? For this one at least, yes, I've done many of those using little FPC shorts to enhance shell scripts. Thanks Paul -- A.J Venter Lead Developer, DireqLearn 082 726 5103 http

[fpc-pascal]RE: How to change a users password on Linux

2004-05-21 Thread A.J. Venter
Erm, obviously I need a way to do that in pascal, I think that got left out of the message blush A.J. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: Hacking was Re: [fpc-pascal]Lazarus

2003-08-30 Thread A.J. Venter
Not to be pedantic, but can I request that we as TRUE hackers at least get the terminology right. The site was a cracked by a cracker. FPC was created, and is used by a large number of hackers. Maybe I should just give upsigh. Ciao A.J. On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 12:31, Sigurd Stordal wrote:

[fpc-pascal]A suggestion.

2003-07-25 Thread A.J. Venter
specific platform. Something like xml perhaps ? I wait to hear from all. -- Do not try to think outside the box. That's impossible. Instead only try to realise the truthThere is no box. A.J. Venter Tech Guru DireqLearn. ___ fpc-pascal maillist

Re: [fpc-pascal]A suggestion.

2003-07-25 Thread A.J. Venter
, at 08:30 Europe/Brussels, A.J. Venter wrote: I miss being able to put the cursor on a function/procedure/reserved word name and hitting F1 to see the help section for it. The text mode IDE already has support for this (using the html documentation). I use to use borland's turbo

Re: [fpc-pascal]Synapse for FPC

2003-07-24 Thread A.J. Venter
to realise the truthThere is no box. A.J. Venter Tech Guru DireqLearn. ___ fpc-pascal maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal]Lazarus +FPC

2003-03-30 Thread A.J. Venter
, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Mattias Gaertner wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 23:54:48 +1000 James Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:41:17PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 02:52:31PM +0200, A.J. Venter wrote: Hi

Re: [fpc-pascal]Retrieving memory size?

2003-03-27 Thread A.J. Venter
On Linux systems you can get it out of /proc. If you are on windows however, I am not sure how to do it. Have a look at the contributed units, I am almost certain I have seen a unit there for doing it with. Sorry if this is not wonderfull help, but then again I only develop on and for Linux. On

Re: [fpc-pascal]OT: An FPC program in LinuxFormat Magazine

2003-03-25 Thread A.J. Venter
Well thanks everybody for the words of encouragement and praise. I just released version 1.4 yesterday, with multi-language support etc. I have been on this list since the days when you had to use a snapshot to get AnsiStrings, and it's always been great. I know I don't post that often, but