Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative

2015-02-05 Thread Roland Schäfer
Dear fpc-pascal, On 02/05/2015 12:00 PM, fpc-pascal-requ...@lists.freepascal.org wrote: Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 17:43:09 -0500 From: Anthony Walter sys...@gmail.com To: FPC-Pascal users discussions fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] New Get Lazarus Initiative Ralph,

[fpc-pascal] TGZStream and Int64-sized streams

2013-06-10 Thread Roland Schäfer
Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone is maintaining TGZFileStream, because TStream has Int64-typed Position, Size, and Seek-Offset, and I need this in TGZStream for some large files I process. Any solutions? Cheers! Roland ___ fpc-pascal maillist -

Re: [fpc-pascal] OT: Amazing new development tools

2012-02-26 Thread Roland Schäfer
That was the seventh message on a subject which is not related to FPC in any recognizable way. Although not a very frequent poster, I still need to be on this list because I chose FPC for some of my professional work, and I usually learn a lot from following some of the discussions on the list.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Delphi's anonymous functions in Free Pascal

2011-10-18 Thread Roland Schäfer
On 10/18/2011 8:10 PM, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: Sokol, I'm writing a function GenArray(generator) that returns a random array populated by calling the generator function. So the return type of GenArray matches array of the return type of the generator function, for any generator function.

Re: [fpc-pascal] Any command line interpreters for Free Pascal?

2011-10-15 Thread Roland Schäfer
I get the impression that you want to use Pascal for something it wasn't designed for. Even if you can find some kind of solution, it will probably be a bad hack. But that question is probably for fpc-other. So anyway, the only solution I can think of is to automatically comment out the shebang

Re: [fpc-pascal] Any command line interpreters for Free Pascal?

2011-10-15 Thread Roland Schäfer
On 10/15/2011 9:10 AM, Roland Schäfer wrote: Good look, I meant luck, of course. Roland On 10/15/2011 12:56 AM, Andrew Pennebaker wrote: Yeah, I know to chmod my scripts before dot-slashing them. It's just that fpc can't handle shebangs, and I don't want to have to choose either

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 2.4.2 source

2011-05-21 Thread Roland Schäfer
On 5/21/2011 1:19 PM, Rainer Stratmann wrote: They are typical dpkg messages. This is pretty normal when installing deb packages manually. That is not specific to Lazarus or FPC. The problem is that the tar contains *all* packages, but normally you don't want to install all of them. A

Re: [fpc-pascal] FPC 2.4.2 source

2011-05-21 Thread Roland Schäfer
On 5/21/2011 1:44 PM, Bernd Kreuss wrote: They are first making up a non-existing problem (people being forced to do something they allegedly don't want, although we all know the opposite is true and people *always* want a complete and painless install to avoid all sorts of problems) and then

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: stripping HTML

2011-04-18 Thread Roland Schäfer
On 4/17/2011 5:13 PM, Ralf Junker wrote: I am the author of DIHtmlParser. I do not know if DIHtmlParser compiles and works in FPC linux-x86-64 because I do not have that environment available for testing. Unfortunately, low demand for that platform does not justify setting it up and

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: stripping HTML

2011-04-17 Thread Roland Schäfer
On 4/17/2011 11:00 AM, leledumbo wrote: http://www.festra.com/eng/snip12.htm Simple googling gives a lot of results, try: html strip (pascal OR delphi) Thank you for your reply. I feel I have to justify myself: I always do extensive web and list archive searches before posting to a list (hence

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: stripping HTML

2011-04-17 Thread Roland Schäfer
Thanks a lot for your reply. On 4/17/2011 3:46 PM, Ralf Junker wrote: HTML is not meant to be handled on a line-by-line basis as other text-based formats. According to the specs, HTML is not line-based. Browsers should display the following two HTML snippets identically: [...] As such, a

[fpc-pascal] stripping HTML

2011-04-16 Thread Roland Schäfer
Hello everyone, is there any existing FPC code (even external libraries with bindings) to strip HTML tags from files, including adequate removal of scripts, comments and other multi-line non-text - and which handles faulty HTML input in a tolerant fashion? I also need to keep track of how many

Re: [fpc-pascal] macros

2011-03-16 Thread Roland Schäfer
Hi, INCLUDEs like these will insert the appropriate strings into your code: {$INCLUDE %DATE%} {$INCLUDE %TIME%} {$INCLUDE %FPCTARGETCPU%} {$INCLUDE %FPCTARGETOS%} {$INCLUDE %FPCVERSION%} There are more... AFAIK it's documented in the Programmer's Manual. Cheers Roland On 3/16/2011 2:18 PM,