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Re: Lazarus and FreePascal

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"Hans-Peter Diettrich"  wrote in message 
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> P E Schoen schrieb:

>> I have a USB  serial port designed in a custom data acquisition board, 
>> and when a  Ctrl-T character is sent, it returns a stream of 240 unique 
>> character  pairs, at 4800 characters per second, on a 57.6 kB connection. 
>> I was  able to accomplish this with a TEST button and an OnClick handler.

> Fine :-)

> Does your entire project now run, based on Lazarus?

I have not tried that yet, and I probably won't, unless it becomes 
necessary. The BTSA and Ortmaster projects are now mature and stable, and 
won't need more than a few maintenance tweaks like the change of serial port 
component. The Ortmaster project is particularly complex due to database 
portions using BDE and QuickReports.

What I probably should do is a rewrite pretty much from the ground up. Much 
of the code is questionable and inefficient due to my learning Delphi as I 
built and enhanced the project. The BTSA project may be simple enough to 
rewrite, and I need to make better use of object based programming 
practices. I do have some of the code in separate units, but some units use 
conditional compiles based on ORT or BTSA $defines.

I plan to build a new project that will read a huge CSV text file (about 1.8 
GB), and split it into more manageable file sizes that can be converted to 
spreadsheet format with Open Office. It has a maximum of 1048576 lines with 
an ODS file of 11.2 MB. This is a database of all songs in the ASCAP 
database. It was supplied in a 288 MB zipfile.

Somehow I got interested in copyright issues and royalties and licenses for 
performing or playing copyrighted music in public or private venues. I think 
licenses and royalties mostly apply to professional musicians and DJs and 
for recording and selling music. I have recorded myself and others playing 
and singing music and have made YouTube videos of that. It's a tricky 
subject!

Paul 

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Lazarus and FreePascal "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2016-08-23 00:50 -0400
  Re: Lazarus and FreePascal "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2016-08-23 01:30 -0400
  Re: Lazarus and FreePascal Hans-Peter Diettrich <DrDiettrich1@aol.com> - 2016-08-23 11:14 +0200
    Re: Lazarus and FreePascal "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2016-08-23 18:21 -0400
      Re: Lazarus and FreePascal Marco van de Voort <marcov@toad.stack.nl> - 2016-08-24 08:30 +0000
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    Re: Lazarus and FreePascal "P E Schoen" <paul@pstech-inc.com> - 2016-08-23 17:40 -0400

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