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News on the TSFAQP package by Timo Salmi in reverse order
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University of Vaasa, Finland, Linux Pentium garbo.uwasa.fi has a
large collection of Shareware, Freeware and Public Domain PC
programs available by anonymous FTP, WWW (World Wide Web) and mail
server. The file ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/0news-ts contains news
about the TS-programs in the /pc/ts directory (in reverse order).
This text, which you now have, is an extract from the 0news-ts file
and the Usenet news.
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Prof. Timo Salmi Co-moderator of news:comp.archives.msdos.announce
Moderating at ftp:// & http://garbo.uwasa.fi archives 193.166.120.5
Department of Accounting and Business Finance ; University of Vaasa
mailto:ts@uwasa.fi <URL:http://uwasa.fi/~ts> ; FIN-65101, Finland
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Tue 12-Nov-96: I have made an update of my answers to Frequently
Asked Turbo Pascal questions. It has now reached version 35
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp35.zip. Also available without the
version number as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip.
I have added a number of new items:
104) How can I get/set a disk volume label?
105) Is there a function to chop off the leading zero from 0.322?
106) How can I print a text file (and conclude sending a formfeed)?
107) How can I round 4.1256455 to two decimal places to give 4.13?
108) How can I list with paths all the files on a drive?
I have changed the item "How can I customize the text characters to
my own liking?" to rather be
11) How can I read the text character fonts from the memory?
and added source code examples to the item.
Added the file "TSFAQP.IDX Joint index of all the questions"
Sat 14-Sep-96: Updated my collection of Frequently Asked Turbo
Pascal Questions to be ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp34.zip.
Also available as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip.
Added the following new items
101) How do I detect if mouse hardware/driver is installed?
102) How can I read absolute sectors directly from a floppy?
103) How can I move a file to another directory in Turbo Pascal?
Rewrote since the previous version
3) What is the code for the weekday of a given date?
92) Does anybody have a program that gives the week number?
Sat 7-Sep-96: I have updated my FAQ collection Frequently Asked
Turbo Pascal Questions. The faqpas[1234].txt files within it now
include a full 100 items. There are two new items
99) Can you tell a beginner how to delete files with Turbo Pascal?
100) Could you please explain shl and shr operators to a beginner?
Rewrote with good suggestions from Dr. John Stockton
38) How can I read input without echoing to the screen?
Added a pointer to the calendar FAQ into the item
3) What is the code for the weekday of a given date?
Added source code to
92) Does anybody have a program that gives the week number?
which also covers the previous (3) item.
Sun 19-May-96: I have again released a new update of my Frequently
Asked Turbo Pascal questions. It is now tsfaqp32.zip and is best
available as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip. This update
contains the following new items
96) My graph.tpu got corrupted. Someone please email me a new copy.
97) How can I avoid run-time errors in numeric input using readln?
98) How can I limit the user's readln input to e.g. 3 characters?
Sun 28-Apr-96: I have updated the Frequently Asked Turbo Pascal
Questions to be
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp31.zip
Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
Better available as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip.
Added the following new items
94) How can I redirect output to file if I use the Crt unit?
95) How to write a function to return true if I am in graphics mode?
Added at John Stockton's suggestion the reference to a calendar FAQ
into the item
91) Is 2000 a leap year? What is the leap year algorithm?
Several new Delphi newsgroups have been added. Hence updated the
item
76) What are the current Pascal newsgroups on the Usenet news?
Added to the part "INFO-PAS.TXT comp.lang.pascal.misc email info"
a new item
3) How can I prevent bounces from the comp.lang.pascal.misc list?
Sat 30-Mar-96: I have updated the Frequently Asked Turbo Pascal
Questions to be
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp30.zip
Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers
Better available as ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/link/tsfaqp.zip. Added
the following new items
91) Is 2000 a leap year? What is the leap year algorithm?
92) Does anybody have a program that gives the week number?
93) How can I use OutText to write numbers in the graphics mode?
Added a third option based on ports to
15) How can I test that the printer is ready?
I also rearranged the material by reallocating in into files of 25
questions/answers each. Earlier I had 30 Q&As in each file.
Mon 1-Jan-96: I have updated my Frequently Asked Turbo Pascal
Questions ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp29.zip.
Wrote two new items for Turbo Pascal beginners:
88) Where do I find Turbo Pascal tutorials and/or good textbooks?
89) How dow I make an executable of my Turbo Pascal source program?
Wrote a new item for more advanced users
90) How can I quickly read the last byte of a file?
Added a reference to the Turbo Pascal IDE's help example in
24) How can I link graphics drivers directly into my executable?
Tue 5-Sep-95: Update ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp28.zip of my
Frequently Asked Turbo Pascal Questions:
Added an option using IOCTL information to
15) How can I test that the printer is ready?
A small correction to A4 of
21) How do I turn the cursor off?
Added the following new items
85) How do I get the character device name of the (first) CD-ROM?
86) How do I eject a CD-ROM using a Turbo Pascal program?
87) How do I find out if the ANSI.SYS driver has been loaded?
Sun 6-Aug-95: The Frequently Asked Turbo Pascal questions is now in
version
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp27.zip
Added new items:
82) How do I detect if more than one standard key is pressed down?
83) How can I read a disk's Volume Serial Number?
84) How can I disable and then enable the keyboard in my TP program?
Added a third alternative answer to
80) How do I find out the size of any kind of a file?
Sun 23-Jul-95: I have updated the Frequently asked Turbo Pascal
questions collection.
Brought up to date:
76) What are the current Pascal newsgroups on the Usenet news?
Added:
81) How do I format graphics output like in textmode writeln?
Wed 5-Jul-95: I have released an update of my Frequently Asked Turbo
Pascal Questions. It is a subset of the subjects often coming up in
Turbo Pascal programming for example in the new Usenet newsgroup
news:comp.lang.pascal.borland. The FAQ covers Turbo Pascal
programming in the real mode, but not protected mode. Also excluded
are Object oriented programming (OOP), linked lists, Turbo Vision
(TV), and Turbo Pascal for Windows (TPW). I hope that someone else
takes on these excluded areas. The updated FAQ is available as
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp25.zip
Added the following, new items
77) How do I detect the CapsLock status, how do I turn it on/off?
78) How do I detect if the F11 or F12 key has been pressed?
79) How do I extract (parse) substrings from an input string?
80) How do I find out the size of any kind of a file?
Based on friendly users' feedback, appended material or corrected
the following, old items
26) How to get ansi control codes working in Turbo Pascal writes?
33) Which error is e.g. Runtime error 205, etc
60) How do I obtain a bit or bits from a byte, a word or a longint?
65) How can I detect if the shift/ctrl/alt etc key is pressed?
67) If Delay procedure does not work properly, how do I fix it?
Made it clearer that the answer to the first item, and perhaps the
most frequent of all frequent TP questions
1) How do I disable or capture the break key in Turbo Pascal?
also covers another frequent TP question, that is how to detect
which cursor key has been pressed.
Made some very minor changes to
76) What are the current Pascal newsgroups on the Usenet news?
Changed more of the file references to the URL format.
Fri 16-Jun-95: I have updated my collection of Frequently Asked
Turbo Pascal Questions. Now ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/ts/tsfaqp24.zip.
Added an acknowledgements list about feedback into tsfaqp.inf
contained within tsfaqp24.zip.
Added items
75) How can I read another program's errorlevel value in TP?
76) What are the current Pascal newsgroups on the Usenet news?
Made all the contents compatible with the Pascal newsgroups'
reorganization that took effect Mon 12-Jun-95.
Added to item
1) How do I disable or capture the break key in Turbo Pascal?
the subquestion
Q4: How do I detect if a cursor key or a function key has been
pressed?
Changed file references to URL format where relevant.
Wed 15-Mar-95: I have updated my Frequently Asked Turbo Pascal
Questions collection to be garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaqp23.zip.
Added item:
74) What are and how do I use pointers?
Added an explanation why the often proposed SetCBreak(false) is not
the correct response to
1) How do I disable or capture the break key in Turbo Pascal?
Thu 26-Jan-95: I have updated the FAQ (Frequently Asked questions)
for Turbo Pascal. It now is garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaqp22.zip.
- Added the following new items
"71) How do I get started with graphics programming?"
"72) Where to I find the different sorting source codes?"
"73) A beginner's how to write and compile units."
- Added one text-book to the bibliography.
- Augmented the item
"55) How can I test and convert a numerical string into a real?"
with an Standard Pascal example the other way round with a code
converting an integer into a string.
Tue 11-Oct-94: I have updated the FAQ (Frequently Asked questions)
for Turbo Pascal. It is now garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaqp21.zip.
Added the items
69) How to detect if a drive is a CD-ROM drive?
70) How do I convert an array of characters into a string?
Added the source code for monochrome detection to item
31) How does one store, and then restore the original screen?
Wrote an alternative answer to
50) How can I write inline code?
Made some other, minor clarifications, and file reference updates.
Note that even if my FAQ is now very large there are many areas
it does not intend to cover. The most notable areas not covered are
TP for Windows, protected mode TP programs (BP), Turbo Vision,
objective oriented TP programming, linked lists. It is up to the
other comp.lang.pascal readers to cover these areas. Likewise,
graphics programming has only one item.
Wed 15-Jun-94: I have updated my collection of Frequently Asked
Turbo Pascal questions at garbo.uwasa.fi to be /pc/ts/tsfaqp20.zip.
I appended the item
68) How much memory will my TP program require?
with a contribution from Duncan Murdoch.
Added the alternative with interrupts to the item
1) How do I disable or capture the break key in Turbo Pascal?
Added Jeroen Schipper's solution to
45) How to establish if a name refers to a directory or not?
Sat 12-Mar-94: I have updated the Turbo Pascal Frequently Asked
questions to be garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaqp19.zip by adding the
following items:
65) How can I detect if the shift/ctrl/alt etc key is pressed?
66) How do I get a base 10 logarithm in TP?
67) If Delay procedure does not work properly, how do I fix it?
Sun 26-Dec-93: Released upgrade garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaqp18.zip
of my Frequently Answered :-) Questions about Turbo Pascal
programming. Added new items
62) How can I copy a file in a Turbo Pascal program?
63) How can I use C code in my Turbo Pascal program?
64) How do I get started with the Turbo Profiler?
Added material to
5) Can someone give me advice for writing a tsr program?
24) How can I link graphics drivers directly into my executable?
41) What is wrong with my program? It hangs without a clear pattern?
52) How do I avoid scrolling in the last column of the last row?
Brought some program reference version numbers up to date, and
corrected a few typing mistakes, and made some new ones.
Sun 28-Nov-93: I have updated my Turbo Pascal Frequently Asked
Questions collection to be garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaqp17.zip by
including the following new items (and making some adjustments to
the earlier ones).
57) How can I calculate the difference between two points of time?
58) Is a program running stand-alone or from within the IDE?
59) Please explain Turbo Pascal memory addressing to me.
60) How do I obtain a bit or bits from a byte, a word or a longint?
61) What are Binary Coded Decimals? How to convert them?
Sun 7-Nov-93: I have updated my Frequently Asked Turbo Pascal
Questions collection to be garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaqp16.zip. Some
items have been brought up to date, and the following new items have
been added.
53) How can one hide (or unhide) a directory using a TP program?
54) How do I test whether a file is already open in a TP program?
55) How can I test and convert a numerical string into a real?
56) How can I reverse a TP .EXE or .TPU back into source code?
Wed 18-Aug-93: I have added two recent comp.lang.pascal items to my
collection of frequently asked Turbo Pascal questions & answers:
51) I am running out of memory when compiling my large program.
52) How do I avoid scrolling in the last column of the last row?
There are also some other minor adjustments in the earlier items,
and the other accompanying information. The collection is now
garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaqp15.zip.
Mon 26-Jul-93: I have updated my frequently asked Turbo Pascal
questions and answers collection. The following items have been
added
46) How does one disable alt-ctrl-del?
47) How can I test whether a file exists?
48) What is the name of the current Turbo Pascal program?
49) How is the code for rebooting the PC written in Turbo Pascal?
50) How can I write inline code?
The updated FAQ is available as garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaqp14.zip
Sat 3-Jul-93: I have updated my Frequently Asked Turbo Pascal
questions and answers collection. I added four new items bringing
the total up to 45 questions, edited some of the old ones, and moved
the bibliography to a file of its own within the collection. The
bibliography is called FAQPASB.TXT. Also added "INFO-PAS.TXT using
comp.lang.pascal by email". The collection is now
garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaqp13.zip.
Mon 31-May-93: Since I detached my Frequently Asked Turbo Pascal
questions from my general news/programs FAQ a couple of weeks ago,
it has been more natural to maintain and add new questions to my TP
FAQ. The TP FAQ garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaqp12.zip now includes the
information in two parts. They TSPAS.TXT and TSPAS2.TXT where the
former contains 30 questions, and the latter continues on from that,
currently up to 41 questions. This is a major update. Besides adding
several new items to the collection, I have added much information
and clarifications to many of the old items. Hence a tsfaq11.zip
version was skipped altogether.
Sun 16-May-93: My tsfaq33.zip Frequently Asked Questions has grown
to be quite large. Therefore I have decided to divide it into two by
separating the Turbo Pascal questions from the ordinary UseNet news
and program related questions. The two entities are both available
from the garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/ directory:
tsfaqn34.zip Questions from UseNet and Timo's answers
tsfaqp10.zip Common Turbo Pascal Questions and Timo's answers