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   >20 Oct 16 13:49, you wrote to me:   
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   > 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.   
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   > 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...   
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   >)\/(ark   
   >   
   >Always Mount a Scratch Monkey   
   >Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin'   
   it    
   >wrong...   
   >... People should marry for life, like pigeons and Catholics.   
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   Wikibooks has some Pascal stuff. Also, the Free Pascal documentation.   
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