Hi all

I have just released the first public beta of a Delphi-compatible "sysutils" unit to agnes. It has been tested under Cygwin, Mingw, Linux (Mandrake 7.0), and Solaris 7.

As far as I know, there are no general portability or endian issues - but there may well be bugs.

Please download the file: ftp://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/home/chief/sysutils-20000725.zip

The package contains a test program, which you can try out. The program's output is fairly self explanatory, and you can see from it what has succeeded/failed, without looking at the sources in most cases.

Please send all bug reports/fixes to me.

Please note that this is not a complete implementation of the sysutils unit, but it is a fairly comprehensive port. Some things (e.g., exceptions) cannot be implemented until some new features (e.g., classes) are added to GPC. Others have not been implemented, either because there is no time, or because I simply am incapable of implementing them.

Frank has helped with many of the more difficult routines that have already been implemented. If anybody else wants to help, please feel free to do so!

Please let me have all your success (or otherwise) stories! I am particularly interested to know the OS platforms that the unit compiles and works correctly under.

Thanks.

Watch this space for portable unzip and Huffman compression libraries!

Best regards, The Chief -------- Prof. Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku (The African Chief) Author of: Chief's Installer Pro v5.22.1 for Win32 http://www.bigfoot.com/~African_Chief/chief32.htm Email: African_Chief@bigfoot.com