VC> Used to, last was re-issuing FileMgr now left on sourceforge as    
    VC> Open Source. Written in TP. Did consider migrating it over to Free    
    VC> Pascal but decided it was to complex for my old brain !!   
      
    JC> Free Pascal isn't so bad coming from TP.  They have a lot of nearly   
    JC> compatible Units that work like TP counterparts (DOS, CRT, etc).    
    JC> Those units can really help soften the transition.   
      
   yup!   
      
    JC> I think you can find a lot of similar string functions in SysUtils   
    JC> (to help replace all of those TP assembler string functions that   
    JC> just about everyone was using back in the day!)   
      
   you can say that again... it seems like they took all of those additional   
   library routines that we all used to reinvent and such and placed them into   
   the library that comes with FPC so that you don't have to reinvent the wheel   
   again...   
      
   the bigest problem i'm having is uninventing that wheel... finding the   
   routines that are duplicated and using the new one that comes with FPC... the   
   trouble is that the names are not always close or similar... i've even come   
   acrossed a few that have the same name but the variables are passed   
   differently and/or the new routine doesn't do what the old one did... there's   
   a lot of code diving that has to be done to make sure everything gets   
   converted correctly ;)   
      
   i've slowly been working on converting mark may's mksmg library to FPC...   
      
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