Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

2020-12-21 Thread Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal
On 12/22/20 2:39 AM, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) via fpc-pascal wrote: Hi, On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: As long as one knows why a certain temporal construct is used there is no problem and at least in Germany (or more specifically Bavaria) we were taught that in

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

2020-12-21 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) via fpc-pascal
Hi, On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: > As long as one knows why a certain temporal construct is used there is > no problem and at least in Germany (or more specifically Bavaria) we > were taught that in masses.  As a native speaker of a language which only has three tenses

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

2020-12-21 Thread gabor via fpc-pascal
W dniu 2020-12-21 o 23:41, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal pisze: > The main restriction is that it only supports ShortString and thus has > no Unicode support. I wonder which type would be best suited to store a unicode character (code point) for the screen buffer? type TScreenBuffer = array of

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

2020-12-21 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal schrieb am Mo., 21. Dez. 2020, 17:41: > I don't know what non native english speakers are taught, nor can I > address the folks across the pond, but here in the Us at least, has denotes > currently exists, while had indicates past tense, I.E. no longer exists. >

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

2020-12-21 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
Liam Proven via fpc-pascal schrieb am Mo., 21. Dez. 2020, 18:11: > On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 10:56, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal > wrote: > > > > > > On 12/21/20 10:42 AM, Markus Greim wrote: > > > > FPC has had a Turbo Pascal-like console IDE for many years... > > Sorry about this. I did

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

2020-12-21 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys via fpc-pascal
On 21/12/2020 2:07 pm, Liam Proven via fpc-pascal wrote: > Is this conversion of TurboVision FOSS, then? Yes, it definitely is, otherwise it wouldn't be part of FPC. If you have FPC install, you should be able to simply type 'fp' from the command prompt and it should fire up the FreeVision Text

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

2020-12-21 Thread Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal
I don't know what non native english speakers are taught, nor can I address the folks across the pond, but here in the Us at least, has denotes currently exists, while had indicates past tense, I.E. no longer exists.  Combining the two is where it gets dicy, and is generally avoided for

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

2020-12-21 Thread rvmartin2--- via fpc-pascal
Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote the following on 21/12/2020, 13:13:08: > Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal schrieb am > Mo., 21. Dez. 2020, 11:36: > > > > > On 12/21/20 10:42 AM, Markus Greim wrote: > > > > FPC has had a Turbo Pascal-like console IDE for many years... > > > > "has had" ? > >

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

2020-12-21 Thread Liam Proven via fpc-pascal
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 10:56, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal wrote: > > > On 12/21/20 10:42 AM, Markus Greim wrote: > > FPC has had a Turbo Pascal-like console IDE for many years... Sorry about this. I did not get this email, only the replies to it. I was unaware of that! Is this

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

2020-12-21 Thread Sven Barth via fpc-pascal
Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal schrieb am Mo., 21. Dez. 2020, 11:36: > > On 12/21/20 10:42 AM, Markus Greim wrote: > > FPC has had a Turbo Pascal-like console IDE for many years... > > "has had" ? > > AKAIK "has" > > I still used it yesterday. > > English is not my native language, but I

Re: [fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

2020-12-21 Thread Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal
On 12/21/20 10:42 AM, Markus Greim wrote: FPC has had a Turbo Pascal-like console IDE for many years... "has had" ? AKAIK "has" I still used it yesterday. English is not my native language, but I think "has had" means it still has it. If I had said "had" instead of "has had", it would