20 Oct 16 13:49, you wrote to me:   
      
    TL>> Any suggestions for resources would be welcome, though I have already   
    TL>> found some good information on the Free Pascal wiki, which has jogged   
    TL>> my memory.   
      
    ml>> what kinds of resources??   
      
    TL> Tutorials, references, etc, suitable for someone with previous (Turbo)   
    TL> Pascal experience.  Not so keen on videos though.   
      
   yeah, screw videos... ummm... the FPC guys will say that most Delphi related   
   books are ok... some few things might be different but for the most part,   
   they're ""the same""... also, one of the guys on either the FPC or Lazarus   
   teams wrote a book which is available but i don't know where or for how   
   much... i pull the three FPC and Lazarus related mailing lists... there's also   
   a forum but i can't stand its interface... the mailing list works great for me   
   and that's where i get most of my help when i need it...   
      
   Lazarus is a RAD environment but it is also a good editor environment, too...   
   help is available from within the editor just like in the TP/BP days... i   
   still do a lot of procedural coding with some little bits of OOP stuffs... i   
   haven't done anything at all with Lazarus' RAD capabilities other than a few   
   experimental things from some document or other i found...   
      
      
   as an aside, i'm looking for mark may's mksrcmsg libraries converted to FPC...   
   i'm not looking very hard but i do have several projects that would really   
   benefit from being recompiled with the updated code and being 32bit or 64bit   
   instead of 16bit... if you don't remember mark's code, it is the OOP library   
   for accessing JAM, MSG, SQUish, HMB and old EZYcom message bases... i think   
   there's also some QWK stuff available but that's probably in the sources he   
   released of his Mythical Kingdom BBS package...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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