[fpc-pascal] helpsystem, some numbers

[Luiz Americo Pereira Camara]

Graeme Geldenhuys escreveu:
>> I used Total Command 6.55 with the 7-zip plugin v0.4.6.  Total
>> Commander and the 7-zip plugin is written in Object Pascal (delphi).
>> No dependencies on external libraries. I ran Total Commander under
>> Linux by the way.
>>     
>
> For the latest version of the 7-zip plugin with source code.
> http://www.totalcmd.net/plugring/7zip_plugin.html
>
> I see it's under LGPL license. I'm pretty sure if we contact the
> author (Adam Strzelecki) he would grant us the Modified-LGL exception
> for static linking. Most authors I spoke to before are okay with that.
>
> Okay, I downloaded the source for the latests 7-zip plugin v0.5.8 and
> noticed it's written in C++ (not Object Pascal - my mistake).  Now
> lets see how good source conversion programs we can find (C++  -->
> Object Pascal)...  ;-) Or create obj file and link them into FPC code
> (though I have never done this myself).
>   


There's a pascal port of LZMA at http://www.birtles.org.uk/programming/.
Be aware that to compress/decompress 7-zip (.7z) files requires more 
than the compression/decompression algorithm. Is necessary to handle the 
file format.

Luiz