[fpc-devel] Free Pascal / Free Vision: Executing shell commands and showing output

[Aruna Hewapathirane]

Hello everyone, I’ve recently started exploring the Free Pascal source tree
and digging into the fp text-mode IDE to better understand how things are
structured and implemented. As a learning exercise, I put together a very
simple Free Vision program that runs lsblk -S and displays the output in a
scrollable TListBox.

The attached screenshot shows the issue I’m running into with the displayed
output. I’m clearly missing something fundamental here, and I’d appreciate
any pointers in the right direction.

Would this also be an appropriate question to raise on the fpc-devel list?

Thanks in advance.

Aruna Hewapathirane
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