[fpc-pascal] FPC on USB

2009-06-13 Thread Thomas Nelson
Sorry the proper subject should have been FPC on USB --- On Sat, 6/13/09, Thomas Nelson wrote: From: Thomas Nelson Subject: PFC on USB To: fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Date: Saturday, June 13, 2009, 8:47 AM Hello,   I would like to put the FPC development environment (including fpgu

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC on USB

2009-06-13 Thread Doug Chamberlin
Thomas Nelson wrote: Sorry the proper subject should have been FPC on USB I strongly suggest you look into storing a complete virtual machine on the USB storage. I know a few people who operate their VM's from USB devices and they are content with that arrangement. The advantage is that the

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC on USB

2009-06-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Thomas Nelson wrote: > I would like to put the FPC development environment (including > fpgui) on a USB. > > I live in the windows environment and would I am trying to find the > proper procedure to be able to make FPC portable as I go from > computer to computer. I have

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC on USB

2009-06-15 Thread Vincent Snijders
Thomas Nelson schreef: Hello, I would like to put the FPC development environment (including fpgui) on a USB. I live in the windows environment and would I am trying to find the proper procedure to be able to make FPC portable as I go from computer to computer. This is about Lazarus whic

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC on USB

2009-06-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Vincent Snijders wrote: > > This is about Lazarus which includes FPC: > http://www.eightminds.com/archives/22 Ah, that made me think of the website: Portable Apps, which does just that. All kinds of applications that only run off the USB drive. Here is the Lazarus - portable.apps link: http:/

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC on USB

2009-06-15 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > > Here is the Lazarus - portable.apps link: >http://portableapps.com/node/18088 > > Please note: >I have never tried this myself. Is that complexity really needed at all? Might be as simple as making a small program that extracts the dri

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC on USB

2009-06-15 Thread Vincent Snijders
Marco van de Voort schreef: Is that complexity really needed at all? Might be as simple as making a small program that extracts the drive the stick is mounted on, then have that put in the environment, and then use %stickdrive% everywhere to recall it? "and then use %stickdrive% *everywhere* to

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC on USB

2009-06-15 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Marco van de Voort wrote: > > Is that complexity really needed at all? Might be as simple as making a No idea. As I mentioned, I don't use any of those "extra" applications. I simply have two scripts I run in a terminal session, and afterwards that session is fully working from any location on my

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC on USB

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Nelson
rmation is to the operation of FPC from the USB.   I appreciate your response, it is very similar to what I was hoping to do.   Tom --- On Mon, 6/15/09, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: From: Graeme Geldenhuys Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC on USB To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" Date: Mond

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC on USB

2009-06-15 Thread Thomas Nelson
Thank you, I will look into this also   Tom --- On Mon, 6/15/09, Vincent Snijders wrote: From: Vincent Snijders Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC on USB To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" Date: Monday, June 15, 2009, 4:03 AM Thomas Nelson schreef: > Hello, >  I would lik

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC on USB

2009-06-16 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
Thomas Nelson wrote: that FPC writes to the windows registry and was curious as to how critical that information is to the operation of FPC from the USB. I was not aware of that. What is actually written to the registry? I thought the compiler only uses the fpc.cfg file. Regards, - Graeme -

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC on USB

2009-06-16 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > > that FPC writes to the windows registry and was curious as to how > > critical that information is to the operation of FPC from the USB. > > I was not aware of that. What is actually written to the registry? I thought > the compiler only uses

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC on USB

2009-06-16 Thread Thomas Nelson
wrote: From: Marco van de Voort Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC on USB To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 9:31 AM In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: > > that FPC writes to the windows registry and was curious as to how > > critical