> Thank you, but I appreciate the freedom and the power of open source ;-) > Also, I can't see anything wrong in spending US$10 on something > minimally important, why is it?
No problem at all - I would spend $10-$20 on a "I Love Freepascal" t-shirt, for example. > Remember: free software is about freedom, not price. > Of course "monetary cost" can be and usually is a form of restricting > freedom, but nothing if absolutely free. Oh I wrote about these issues before.. I know what you are saying. http://z505.com/cgi-bin/qkcont/qkcont.cgi?p=Open-Source-Service-Scared-Him Warning: don't read paswiki if you have a busy day. Takes a long time to wade through all the rants on that site. > Actually I recently started a "split" utility project (compiles in both FPC and > Delphi) that let's me resume the split later. Problem is a 10GB file won't fit > on a CD, so you have to pause the splitting process and resume it later, after > entering the second CD in the drive. (my hard drive was too full to have the > file split on it first before going on to the CD). Not done the joining utility > yet though. > > There're tons of such utilities already. I spent a few minutes on google trying to find one that had resume capabilities or "stop and let me insert next CD-ROM" capabilities but couldn't find one.. I don't know what this feature is called? If you know of a utility let me know. The ones I tried just split the files into one directory without pausing inbetween. Anyway it was fun to build the program.. the real problem was my google skills weren't good enough. Some times I don't know what a certain feature is called. Resume splitting? I don't know. I needed to learn a bit about splitting files in Pascal, so I wrote a util to gain some pascal knowledge. Unfortunately I didn't come from the TurboPascal days where it was very common to split a file onto several floppies. I don't have that experience. :-) p.s. just buy EditPlus and skip Synedit. It's faster than most Synedit based editors. Just pay the $30 for EditPlus already and quit the Synedit nonsense. But of course, synedit is fun to learn about and can always do more then editplus will ever be able to do, due to extensibility. Actually that's why I wrote the file splitting utility - it is inhouse software that I need to extend later on in a few months anyway. Gotta love inhouse software. _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
