[fpc-other] (OS/2 & eCS) - Free Pascal problem.

[John H. Lindsay]

Hi All:

I'm looking for any help getting Free Pascal into usable shape on OS/2
and eCS; I'm running eCS v. 2.2 B2.  The basic problems are that I can't
get a big enough command-line window to show the  fp  character-mode
IDE window to do any work, and that once in any command-line window,
the  fp  display doesn't respond to any key strokes or mouse clicks, and
almost immediately, the mouse pointer turns into a drag-and-drop symbol
without any apparent way to turn it off (cancel drag).  Details below.  I'd
appreciate any thoughts or information about how OS/2 and eCS people
are using Free Pascal successfully.

Any hope for Lazarus/2 ?

Any recommendations about how to get on one of the Free Pascal fora ?
When I log in and try, I have an e-mail window, and it asks for an e-mail
address to send it to, but what does one enter to have the e-mail sent to
one of the fora ?

John.

[Details of my efforts]:  A standard size OS/2 command-line window does
respond to the fp command, but the display (25 lines ?) leaves only a few
lines for any work.  The display doesn't respond to keystrokes or mouse
clicks.  The window size is fixed, and although pointing at the boundaries
shows the double arrow, one still can't resize the window.  Of course,
there's the mode command, where one can resize the command-line
window to any of a selection of fixed sizes, but if one issues  fp  to 
get the
Free Pascal character-mode IDE, the window then pops back to the
smaller standard size.  The same is true of the 4OS2 command-line
window.  If, however, in a 4OS2 window, one calls Steven Levine's
WINSIZE  utility coded in REXX, one can move the window boundaries
and resize the window; but even then, if one gives the  fp  command,
the window still pops back to the standard small size.  MUTTER Mutter
mutter.  Onward and upward I say.