28 Jan 16 11:05, you wrote to Vince Coen:   
      
    JC> You'd likely need to make pure pascal versions of those functions in   
    JC> order to get it to compile and work in Free Pascal with any sort of   
    JC> portability.   
      
   that's what i've been doing... converting some of my fancy tricks back to   
   pascal which i likely borrowed them from to start with... but as i work   
   through everything, i find that many of them have already been made and exist   
   in the libraries... even some of my nastiest clock/time/date code is already   
   available from the libraries and i don't even need to use my wheel any more...   
   that also save me from having to maintain it and try to figure out my own   
   bugs... other's have already done that...   
      
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