20 Oct 16 13:49, you wrote to me:

 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.

 ml>> what kinds of resources??

 TL> Tutorials, references, etc, suitable for someone with previous (Turbo)
 TL> Pascal experience.  Not so keen on videos though.

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...

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