[fpc-pascal] What happened with oldlinux unit?

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Tue Mar 5 13:46:51 CET 2013


In our previous episode, Krzysztof said:
> Free Pascal documentation has info about oldlinux unit which has
> interesting functions like fstat or fsstat. But can't find this unit in my
> FPC 2.7.1

Old linux was deprecated in December 2003. Since 2.6.0 it is no longer
distributed by default. Moreover afaik it is linux/i386 only.

Unit baseunix provides nearly all functions in a portable manner.



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