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<i>Hello there.</i>
<br><b><font color="#FF0000"><font size=-1>(questions at the end of this
message)</font></font></b>
<p>I spent an hour getting all the files I could need form your site a
while back.
<p>Note that I knew absolutely nothing about Pascal before last night,
<br>and only been involved minutely in Visual Basic development and
<br>web site design since April of this year.
<p>Now I had a wonderful quality-time by my self with your FAQ and
<br>DOC files this early morning form app. 3.30 till app. 7.30.
<p>After about 4 hours I wrote my first little exe, and not the regular
boring
<br> writeln('hello world');
<br>but rather, this to test some file writing abilities.
<p><i><tt>A file to generate somewhere around 1 Mb of data strings,</tt></i>
<br><i><tt>marking start time and end time so I can see how quick this</tt></i>
<br><i><tt>really is for my future needs.</tt></i>
<p>It writes in average, on my puter, 8,22 Mb per seconds, so needless
<br>to say I am very pleased in comparance to VB which would take a
<br>few minutes just to run the generation loop.
<p>Now I must also give you guys a serious patt on the back for really
<br>knowing what you are doing as far as building an excellent installer
<br>for the Windows environment.
<p>I have not had to tweak or alter a single thing before I could compile
my program.
<br>(as opposed of DJGPP whihc didnt want to work after 6 hours of install
attempts,
<br>or even so, Visual Cpp that still tosses all sorts of weird outcommented
code into
<br>the generated applications.)
<p>So finaly to my questions.
<p><b>1)</b> Is there a simple way to do
<br><b><i><font size=-1> Char 2 Ascii Code ('A' => #65)</font></i></b>
<br><b><i><font size=-1> Char 2 Hex Code (#255 => $FF)</font></i></b>
<br><b><i><font size=-1> Char 2 Binary Code (#255 =>
%11111111)</font></i></b>
<br> in this kind of reversed conversion, already included
<br> or is that only possible the opposit way.
<p><b>2)</b> Is there an upper limit for how large a file the compiler
can process?
<br> I mean I could virtually write all my source code
into one single text file,
<br> and run it as is through the compiler.
<p>and perhaps most importantly,
<p><b>3)</b> Is there a way to write DLL files with FreePascal,
<br> or can I call the executables in some way to perform
the same operations?
<p>Keep up the good work all of you, and I really hope you decide to
<br>make all your libraries ported to suit all operating systems.
<p>I find it amazing, how quickly I picke dup on your excellent writing
<br>and the wonderful samples you include in the node files in your documentation.
<p><b><i>Sincerely,</i></b>
<p>Mike J.
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