SH>> Yeah, FreePascal does a good job as far as Borland
 SH>> compatability is concerned... however, a lot of the
 SH>> OS-specific functions are not exactly identical, merely
 SH>> close.  File locking is a particularily tricky area.

 SH>> Also, with the (possible) exception of the Linux port, the
 SH>> various *nix ports RTL are flat out wrong a in a number of
 SH>> places.

 JD> I've tried Virtual Pascal and FreePascal with compiling BP7
 JD> code and both have had their strengths and weaknesses.  I
 JD> like VP better, but it just won't compile a lot of stuff at
 JD> all (like anything with DOS registers).

that should be easily fixed with $ifdef and such... just def in a normal
pascal routine for the *nix stuff and let everything else use the registers
stuff... FWIW: i left the registers stuff behind long ago and went straight
to "embedded" ASM code... i did this for speed concerns only...
still easy enough to revert to the standard pascal code, though...

 JD> Good to know about the Linux stuff.  I've almost got my Linux
 JD> platform ready for dev and testing so I'm sure I'll learn
 JD> much in the coming months :)

cool!

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