[fpc-pascal] String to PString assignment?

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said:
> 
> I'm converting a project from Sibyl (a old OS/2 IDE implement in
> SpeedSoft Pascal).
> 
> Below is the code I'm trying to convert to Free Pascal. I see FPC has a
> PString type, but not FreePString() or NewPString(). Searching the FPC
> source code, I found the FP Text IDE using PString all over. The FP Text
> IDE uses this...  <some PString var> :=  NewStr(<string>);

> Do I need this when I use String = AnsiString in my projects?  Or can I
> simply do the following assignment:  _Title := @NevValue;

If you want to ansistringify, assume that pstring as a whole is ansistring,
and remove all pointers and let ansistrings automatic maintenance work.

Be careful with newstr, there are multiple versions of it. (a TP and Delphi
version) see 
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Textmode_IDE_development#ansistringification 

Don't ever include objects and sysutils in the same unit.