Hello James!   
      
   12 Apr 13 19:04, you wrote to me:   
      
    VC>> I did take a look at mystic and at one point had a test system up   
    VC>> but now a days will not use any programs unless I have the   
    VC>> source. If nothing else in case I wish to tinker but more   
    VC>> importantly so the code can be checked for holes   
      
    > Mystic is open source. :)   
      
   Oh, I have not seen a location for the current releases of the source code.   
      
   I am looking for what others have done regarding a file description editor.   
      
    > I've done quite a bit of the TP to FPC dance over the years, so if   
    > anyone has questions or problems maybe I can offer insight based on my   
    > experiences or something?   
      
   I have release FileMgr to Open source some 4-5 years ago in sourceforge but   
   have no idea of the volume of downloads but I suspect not many.   
   It uses a fair few assembler modules as well as inline code and my Pascal    
   these   
   days is very rusty.   
      
   It does not help that my eyes have a problem that really restricts close   
   looking at the monitor at times so I am limited to when I can do any   
   programming these days and at the moment I am trying to issue a new release of   
   my Accounting Software that was written in Cobol using the Open Cobol    
   compiler.   
   Coming to think about it more to do with rewritting the manuals for the    
   various   
   system and that is taking far longer than it would normally .   
      
      
      
   You are more than welcome to download FileMgr and have a quick look as it    
   could   
   well link into Mystic for file processing / tossing etc.   
      
   The primary issues are get rid of the assembler and more that processing back   
   into Pascal. Obviously when originally written the functionality was not   
   available in Pascal units but hopefully all that has changed with FPC.   
   With that done I am 'assuming' migration should be very simple and that would   
   allow Filemgr to be easily made available for the different platforms.   
      
   Vince   
      
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