ml> i think you are sadly mistaken here... FPC and Lazarus are very   
    ml> compatible with delphi stuff... they are a little behind but there's a   
    ml> reason for that... in any case, you should take another look before   
    ml> throwing the baby out with the bath water...   
      
      Darn! You are completely right. It was some years since I tried FPC, and it   
   had so many limitations, almost none of my BP programs compiled.   
      
      But this Lazarus was really a positive surprise. It looks so like Delphi, I   
   immediately could use it. Only negative about it was the resulting size of the   
   program (even with all debug-info stripped), but that's not such a big deal.   
      
      Thanks for the tip, I'll definitely try to use Lazarus rather than Delphi   
   in the future.   
      
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