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Re: GNU Pascal Anfänger
by Dieter Schmitz 14 Mar '01

14 Mar '01

Hello, The German GPC Mailinglist is ready to use. to subscribe send a mail to majordomo(a)gnu.de with the message subscribe gpc-de in the body part, the rest you should know. If you want to write to the list send your mail at gpc-de(a)gnu.de -- Greetings Dieter

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by Dieter Schmitz 14 Mar '01

14 Mar '01

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Learning tool for GPC and Forgotten FTP password
by Patrick Sharp 14 Mar '01

14 Mar '01

Greeting all! About 4 years ago, I wrote several units for GPC. There were some BP5-7 compatibility units and few wrapper units for Panels, MySql, SoundIT and others. The BP stuff was almost complete, with panel support included with the CRT units (message box like). This was a work in progress that had functioned perfectly... with the version of GPC that was alive in '97 :) All of this source was deleted, and I had no other copies of it... until last week when, by chance, the ISP that I was using (way) back then called me. They were cleaning off old backups and noticed that I still had source files on their server. Lucky for me the president of that company is a GPC fan, and decided to save this file off for me! Now for the point of all of this. My intention was to upgrade all of these units to work with the newest version of GPC. My problem is that the company I work for now does not (yet :)) want to provide any GNUish code for the public and has (sadly) decided to move everything over to Borland's Kylix.. These units were always meant to be released to the GNU community, and I believe that it would be a shame to let them go again.. IF anyone is interested in learning about GPC and Pascal, I believe that this could be a good resource for it. This code will not compile under the current version of GPC, but all of it could be easily upgraded. It's mostly a problem with types like _cstring and such. For now, I will place it on www.cyberconfused.com/gpc_stuff.tgz and if there is any interest in this source at all, I will place it on the agnes server. There is no real site here as I have lost interest in designing anything for it and since I can never seem to get anonymous FTP working with my server, you will need to get this with your browser.. Sorry about that. **PETER. I have lost my ftp password for the psharp account on agnes. I don't know if you keep records of this stuff, but you know me as psharp(a)nilenet.com and also from some of the programs in the test suites (some of the string tests). Is this something that you can email to me?? Thanks! Patrick Sharp Community Webs Inc. 7211 So. Colorado CT. Littleton CO, 80122 pat(a)communitywebs.com http://www.communitywebs.com

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chown? was it going to be posted to the gnu pascal site?
by jallan 14 Mar '01

14 Mar '01

Hey Peoples, I was very greatful for the code to be able to use crypt()... just wondering if the code to be able to use chown() is on the gnu pascal website yet. Jamie

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Re: delphi equivalents in GPC
by Prof. A Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) 13 Mar '01

13 Mar '01

On 13 Mar 2001, at 9:43, Kocherlakota Harikrishna wrote: > Hello, > I would like to know the equivalents for the following delphi > commands/types/functions/units in GPC(on Linux) > Â > > * Tdatetime > * decodetime > * decodedate > * swap > * extractfilename > * expandfilename > * messagebox > * sysutils > * thandle For an early version of the Sysutils unit, see: ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/home/chief/sysutils-20000725.zip That version will not compile with the most recent GPC snapshots without some minor amendments. If anyone is interested, I can release a more up- to-date version. MessageBox is a WinAPI function. To use something like that under Linux you will need to write a wrapper for some X apis. Best regards, The Chief --------- Prof. Abimbola Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) Author of Chief's Installer Pro v5.24 for Win32 Email: African_Chief(a)bigfoot.com http://www.bigfoot.com/~african_chief/

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Re: GNU Pascal Anfänger
by Prof Abimbola Olowofoyeku 13 Mar '01

13 Mar '01

On 10 Mar 01, at 7:00, Egbert Seibertz wrote: [...] > But if something interesting comes up in their list, the rest of us on > the > main list would miss out. > > if it's really importent, they'll tell us! How would they know what is "really important" to me (or you?). Best regards, The Chief -------- Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) Author of: Chief's Installer Pro for Win32 http://www.bigfoot.com/~African_Chief/chief32.htm Email: African_Chief(a)bigfoot.com

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Linking units/modules
by david＠tcs01.demon.co.uk 13 Mar '01

13 Mar '01

Still continuing my migration from GPC 19991030 to GPC 20010306 ... There seems to me to be a difference in how units/modules are found at link time. With 19991030, if I had a program (prog1.p) which used unit unit1.p, the program had a 'uses unit1' in it, and my build procedure did gpc -c unit1.p on the unit, and then gpc prog1 and everything worked. With 20010306, that scheme gives me unresolved referenecs for everything that prog1 uses that is declared in unit1 and I find (having compiled unit1.p to unit1.o and unit1.gpi by gpc -c unit1.p) I have to issue the command gpc prog1.p unit1.o (Yes I know in this case I could just say gpc prog1.p unit1.p in a single command, but in reality there are many units used by many progams, so the make procedure compiles all the units to .o and .gpi files, and then compiles all the programs). This is all under Linux (Redhat 6.2). Is this the expected behaviour now? -- David James mailto:david@tcs01.demon.co.uk Special Stage Rally results archive <URL:http://www.tcs01.demon.co.uk/>

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Re: GNU Pascal Anfänger
by Egbert Seibertz 13 Mar '01

13 Mar '01

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 08:22:00AM -0000, Prof Abimbola Olowofoyeku wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 08:08:38PM -0000, Prof Abimbola Olowofoyeku > > wrote: > ... > While I can see that, from the number of German speakers > > on this list, > a German language group may be of advantage to them, the > > question >... > - but the question still remains - if a specific > > language list were to be > starited, why not others? And if not, why > > not? And if others are started, > > > > they'd have all own lists, of course! > > > > > who will manage the multiplicationi of efforts? > > > > they can read the main-list (this list) too, > > but maybe they can diskuss better in ohter languages. > > But if something interesting comes up in their list, the rest of us on the > main list would miss out. if it's really importent, they'll tell us! Egbert PS: Postmaster, please, set the "Reply-To:" to <gpc(a)gnu.de> for this list. It isn't nice to change the address every time. Egbert

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Re: How does GPC/RTS work regarding date/time functions?
by david＠tcs01.demon.co.uk 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

In message <2BFD2555.20010312143145.FOO-2660.frank(a)g-n-u.de> Frank Heckenbach writes: > > > By the way in timestamp definition: > > Seconds is 0 .. 61 shoulden it be 0 .. 60 (as 0..59 gives a minuet) and 59 + 1 leap second gives 60? > > Somewhere (but I don't remember where) I found a mention of 0 .. 61, > apparently allowing for two leap seconds in a row. I'm not an expert > on these matters, and if someone who is confirms that this can't > happen, we can change it to 0 .. 60. (Otherwise, 0 .. 61 shouldn't > hurt, either.) I believe there is a *theoretical* possibility of adding two leap seconds (I think this would imply something pretty nasty had happened to the earth!) -- David James mailto:david@tcs01.demon.co.uk Special Stage Rally results archive <URL:http://www.tcs01.demon.co.uk/>

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How does GPC/RTS work regarding date/time functions?
by Pernille Bech & Klaus F. Østergaard 12 Mar '01

12 Mar '01

I would like to help improving GPC with time and date procedure and functions. I have been looking into the GPC unit and found this: { Is the year a leap year? } function IsLeapYear (Year : Integer) : Boolean; asmname '_p_is_leap_year'; { Returns the length of the month, taking leap years into account. } function MonthLength (Month, Year : Integer) : Integer; asmname '_p_month_length'; Are you calling a c routine(asmname '_p_.......' ) ? if so why if in the unit gpc-bp the function is programmed in pascal? In gpc-bp unit : function IsLeapYear (Year : Integer) : Boolean; begin IsLeapYear := (Year mod 4 = 0) and ((Year mod 100 <> 0) or (Year mod 400 = 0)) end; function MonthLength (Month, Year : Integer) : Integer; const MonthLengths : array [1 .. 12] of Integer = (31, 28, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31, 31, 30, 31, 30, 31); begin if (Month < 1) or (Month > 12) then MonthLength := 0 else MonthLength := MonthLengths [Month] + Ord ((Month = 2) and IsLeapYear (Year)) end; If I want to help improve on the date time routines, what would the strategy be to maintain portability? I think that getting time from the system should be kept in C. All other calculation on date and time should be done in pascal, in the gpc- or a new datetime-unit, what ever that fits best into maintaining the compiler. I would like to begin with reorganizing and implementing following: Is LeapYear (f) validate date (f) validate time (f) calculate day of year (f) calculate week of year (f) calculate day of week (f) calculate standard to business date (year, week, day) (f) calculate business to standard (f) validate business date (f) functions to add/subtract year(s)/month(s)/day(s)/hour(s)/minuet(s)/second(s) funtion to find difference between to timestamps When this is done I think of things like this: formating date/time to strings decode string to date/time several languages to day and month names calculate easter sunday (f) conversion between gregorian and julian dates and reverse use julian day number insted of unix_time to make calculations on dates the airport hours in clik/ticks (1/100) format ect. By the way in timestamp definition: Seconds is 0 .. 61 shoulden it be 0 .. 60 (as 0..59 gives a minuet) and 59 + 1 leap second gives 60? Hope you can help me begin the right place and that all you other comes with idea's of what to put in a date/time unit as time goes, klaus

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