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>20 Oct 16 13:49, you wrote to me:
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> TL>> Any suggestions for resources would be welcome, though I have already
> TL>> found some good information on the Free Pascal wiki, which has jogged
> TL>> my memory.
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> ml>> what kinds of resources??
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> TL> Tutorials, references, etc, suitable for someone with previous (Turbo)
> TL> Pascal experience.  Not so keen on videos though.
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>yeah, screw videos... ummm... the FPC guys will say that most Delphi related 
>books are ok... some few things might be different but for the most part, 
>they're ""the same""... also, one of the guys on
either the FPC or Lazarus 
>teams wrote a book which is available but i don't know where or for how much... 
>i pull the three FPC and Lazarus related mailing lists... there's also a forum 
>but i can't stand its interface... the mailing list works great for me and 
>that's where i get most of my help when i need it...
>
>Lazarus is a RAD environment but it is also a good editor environment, too... 
>help is available from within the editor just like in the TP/BP days... i still 
>do a lot of procedural coding with some little bits of OOP stuffs... i haven't 
>done anything at all with Lazarus' RAD capabilities other than a few 
>experimental things from some document or other i found...
>
>
>as an aside, i'm looking for mark may's mksrcmsg libraries converted to FPC... 
>i'm not looking very hard but i do have several projects that would really 
>benefit from being recompiled with the updated code and being 32bit or 64bit 
>instead of 16bit... if you don't remember mark's code, it is the OOP library 
>for accessing JAM, MSG, SQUish, HMB and old EZYcom message bases... i think 
>there's also some QWK stuff available but that's probably in the sources he 
>released of his Mythical Kingdom BBS package...
>
>)\/(ark
>
>Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
>Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it 
>wrong...
>... People should marry for life, like pigeons and Catholics.
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Wikibooks has some Pascal stuff. Also, the Free Pascal documentation.
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