11 Oct 15 00:13, you wrote to me:   
      
    ml>> without the additional units and include files, the best i could do   
    ml>> was to make a guess... as i noted, the code looks good but if the   
    ml>> code is wrong then it wouldn't do anything anyway... but then, with   
    ml>> your next statement, i wonder about 16bit vs 32bit vs 64bit and the   
    ml>> sizes of the binary number values you're trying to read... what OS   
    ml>> was it originally written for? was it written in turbo borland   
    ml>> pascal? which one? 6 or 7?? what compiler are you using now??   
      
    jl> I believe it was written in Turbo Pascal.  Not sure which version. It   
    jl> was written for DOS, I know that for sure. I'm now using the Free   
    jl> Pascal compiler to compile it. Something strange, it doesn't need the   
    jl> "-Mtp" switch to compile.   
      
   that would seem to indicate that it isn't using any thing special from any of   
   the other modes available... unless you have something specifically set in   
   your conf file, it is using FPC mode which does not allow classes, interfaces   
   or exceptions...   
      
    ml>> ahhh! ok, that gives me a little more to go on but i still need code   
    ml>> to see what is or is not happening... do you have a repo available i   
    ml>> can fork and work with to try to assist you?? preferably on github   
    ml>> but sourceforge is fine as i'm working on figuring out how to work   
    ml>> with it and other folk's repos so i can create merge requests for   
    ml>> review and contribution back to the projects...   
      
    jl> Nope. No repo. :/ It would be nice if you could help out, though. I'd   
    jl> appreciate it a lot.   
      
   do you have the original code available still? it would be best to start a   
   repo with that and then we can update it with your current code and then go   
   from there... we can use github or sourceforge for the repo host... right now   
   i prefer github because it is pretty easy to work with... sourceforge is a   
   little tougher but both offer git repo hosting...   
      
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