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|    Sean Dennis to Dale Barnes    |
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|    23 Jul 20 18:53:34    |
      MSGID: 1:18/200 5f19dd9a       REPLY: 1:106/201 7b14c891       CHRS: IBMPC 2       Hello Dale,              Wednesday July 22 2020 20:52, you wrote to me:               DB> Which drive format is better to use?              I recommend JFS because you can use a lot of disk recovery and backup programs       with that instead of HPFS.               DB> Have not played with Virtual Pascal /2. How close to Borland Pascal 7        DB> is it? can you build PM apps easier with it then FPC?              It's much closer to BP than FPC but it is not designed to build PM apps, IIRC.              OpenSybil is more of what would be used for PM programs but I have never used       it.               DB> The question on FPC, can the FPC.CFG be used like the BPC.CFG, I can        DB> customize it and have different ones setup for the different projects?        DB> I told you it was a novice question. I just really started looking it        DB> reading the docs. It appears to be able to do quite a bit.              Yes. Just save the FPC.CFG in the individual directories and load it when       needed. FPC is huge but is extremely powerful. It can do a LOT. But it       cannot make PM programs unfortunately.              For me, the overhead of FP isn't worth it and I use VP/2 even though it's not       supported anymore ... and it has a very nice PM-based IDE that I like to use.              I use VP/2 to make 32-bit OS/2 and Win32 programs from a single program. I do       have the DOS32 plugin for VP (rather rare to find it). VP can also convert an       OS/2 program into a 32-bit Linux program.               DB> Thanks for any help and feedback              Sure thing.              Later,       Sean              --- GoldED/2 3.0.1        * Origin: Outpost BBS * bbs.outpostbbs.net:10123 (1:18/200)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 18/200 90/1 120/340 601 123/131 226/30 227/114 702       SEEN-BY: 229/101 275 424 426 452 616 664 1014 240/5832 249/206 317       SEEN-BY: 249/400 292/854 317/3 322/757 342/200 633/280       PATH: 18/200 229/426           |
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