ASB> Last time I looked at Free Pascal it wasn't as cross-   
        > platform as I would have liked.   
      
      ML> when was that?   
      
    AB> Some years ago.   
      
   there's been a lot of changes and bugfixes since then, i'm sure :)   
      
      ML> i'm in FP/Laz pretty much every day as i have several   
        > projects i've been working on to try to get familiar   
        > and comfortable with the environment and the nuances   
        > of the language...   
      
    AB> How well is it working for you, so far?   
      
   for the general basic stuff, it does quite well... some things, like a few 3rd   
   party libraries need some work and i have to have help on them... mainly   
   because they don't support my target of OS/2... i'm going thru that right now   
   trying to get https support working on OS/2 with synapse for a simple web   
   client that has to log in and pull a file and a couple of pages... later, it   
   will be a REST client for the same site but https has to work first... it   
   works great from winwhatever... i've not tried it from linux which synapse   
   also supports... my dev box is winwhatever and OS/2 is the main production   
   system where all the processing needs to be done... i'm not really wanting to   
   use wget to pull the files from that site, either... it would be a lot better   
   for my tool to pull and process all in one go ;)   
      
   but like i say, outside of a few things, so far things are good... i'm also   
   just getting started porting mark may's MKSMG library to FPC so i can start   
   doing more work with the FTN style BBS message bases... i may possibly   
   continue the porting and move on to his MKBBS as well... i dunno... that's a   
   later thing...   
      
   speaking of BBSes, there's also Mystic BBS which is written in FPC and coming   
   along very nicely, too ;)   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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