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echo: pascal
to: JONAS MAEBE
from: VISA HARVEY
date: 1998-04-18 14:33:00
subject: FPC (was: FPK Pascal)

Hello Jonas!
Wednesday April 15 1998 15:29, Jonas Maebe wrote to Visa Harvey:
 VH>> hmm I certainly don't have to load cwsdpmi manually ATM, but that
 VH>> may have been the problem...
 JM> The Go32 Dos extender works both with and without cwsdpmi installed,
 JM> but in the first case it uses dpmi, while in the second case it
 JM> doesn't (I don't know what exactly it uses then). Maybe it was a
 JM> problem with go32v1, which has been solved in go32v2.
I was referring to the GO32V2 executable :)
 VH>> Well ATM I'm using the latest development version ( that I could
 VH>> machine I'm having to use external assembling/linking ( -a -s ),
 JM> This is also due to a memory leak bug in the compiler (which can be
 JM> removed by recompiling the compiler with -ddisposetree, but which
 JM> slows down the compiler severely). We're working on a faster heap
 JM> manager so this problem should be gone soon.
right, well anyway I don't have that problem anymore :) ( machine upgrade )
 JM> ***
 JM> As of version 0.99.6 (which should be online by the time you read
 JM> this), you don't have to recompile the compiler anymore, it has been
 JM> turned into a command line option.
ah right good :) I'll check the inet tonight... BTW are there any known bugs
with put/getimage? nameley on my system atleast they don't appear to work
correctly in roughly the bottom left corner of the screen...
i.e. doesnt work where the x's re in my dodgy diagram below :)
+---------------------+
|                     |
|x                    |
|xx                   |
|xxx                  |
|xxxx                 |
|xxxxx                |
+---------------------+
 JM> This feature has been removed from the latest compiler sources
 JM> because
 JM> toying with that.
I think I still do have the last source tree that had the feature partially
enabled somwhere on a floppy ( Unless I wiped it ;)
Visa
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