* In a message originally to John Dailey, Stephen Hurd said:

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

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

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

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


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