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system: You are Peter Todd, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jud Mccranie about "Re: NEED INFO ON DELPHI".

They wrote:
PT> 1: What is the learning curve like?
JM> Extremely steep.
JM> 4megs ram
PT>    and a 60meg hard drive. :(
JM> Not good enough.  Need a Pentium and a larger & faster HD, good video.
PT> 3: How does is compare to VB?
JM> Delphi is much better.
PT> 4: Can you compile your apps for Win3.1?
JM> You can with Delphi 1, which is included with Delphi 3.

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assistant: That dosn't sound very good.Do you know of any books that would help?
Could a 486 cut it? I *am* crazy. <g>
In what ways though?
Sounds good. I'll be needing that.
... nest.
"Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache."-
system: You are Peter Todd, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Thomas W. Mueller about "Need info on Delphi".

They wrote:
PT> 1: What is the learning curve like?
TM> If you already know another programming language (escpecially Pascal)
TM> it will be not that steep.
PT> 2: How good a computer do you need? All I have is a 386 with
TM> 4megs ram
PT>    and a 60meg hard drive. :(
TM> No chance. Even if you want to run Delphi 1.x (which is no longer
TM> supported by Borland) you will need at least 16 Megs of Memory and the
TM> 60 Megs of harddisk space for Delphi alone.
PT> 3: How does is compare to VB?
TM> You can't compare these two products. Delphi is a compiler based on
TM> Pascal, VB is an interpreter language based on Basic. Delphi programs
TM> tend to be faster but OTOH since most of the "modern" programs spend
TM> most of their time waiting for the user to do something, it doesn't
TM> matter that much.
TM> I prefer Delphi/Pascal.
PT> 4: Can you compile your apps for Win3.1?
TM> With Delphi 1.x you can compile Win 3.x apps. With Delphi 2 and 3 only
TM> Win32 apps. But Delphi 2 and 3 include Delphi 1.01.

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assistant: The other languages I know are VB,QBasic,FirstBasic and soon I will
know the Lord II scripting landuage!
It's a good thing I will be getting a 486 some time soon.
Well if Delphi is faster I'll take it! I have a few programs that I
could use the extra speed.
I can see why! <g>
Thats good to hear. I still like and use Win3.1 And I also intend to
make versions of my programs for Win3.1
... ueens and small dicks!"
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system: You are Fred Burgess, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jud Mccranie about "RE: NEED INFO ON DELPHI".

They wrote:
PT>> 2: How good a computer do you need? All I have is a 386 with 4megs ram
PT>>    and a 60meg hard drive. :(
JM> Not good enough.  Need a Pentium and a larger & faster HD, good video.

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assistant: On Feb 18, 1998 07:54pm, JUD MCCRANIE wrote to PETER TODD:
Only if he is using D2 or D3.  If he is using D1 then a larger HD would be
nice along with upgrading his memory.  I have ran D1 on a 386sx16 with 8
megs of ram.  And this was under W95.  It was kinda slow, but it worked.
Fred
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system: You are Ryan Potts, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Peter Todd about "Need info on Delphi".

They wrote:
PT> That could be a problem. Can you do such thing as single
PT> step in Delphi? Examin vars while debugging? etc.

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assistant: Peter Todd wrote in a message to Martin Maat:
Yes.  That is a feature in all versions of Delphi.
Thanks,
           Ryan
system: You are Benny Tordrup, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jens Turning Bramstedt about "Database > Form Expert".

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assistant: Hej Jens!
L�rdag 21. Februar 1998 kl.18:20 skrev Jens Turning Bramstedt til All:
Have you set your TTable object to Active?
Benny
system: You are Alberto Mariani, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jens Turning Bramstedt about "Database > Form Expert".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Jens Turning Bramstedt to All <=-
JTB> Hi!
JTB> When i use the Form expert to create a form with the data fields that
JTB> I need I have no problems, but when I want to create a form without
JTB> using it nothing really works. What did I miss??? What does the form
JTB> expert do that I don't? Does it create some code that I'm not aware
JTB> of? or ??
JTB> I have created a datasource and a table object which are
JTB> linked to my database also I've created a DBNavigator which realliy
JTB> cannot be used, because all fields are greyed out. If I create a
JTB> DBGrid it doesn't show anything. and both objects have been linked to
JTB> my datasource object.

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assistant: No, it simply adds the visual components to your form and sets the appro-
 priate values for some properties.
 You should set the DataSource property of both the DBGrid and the
 DBNavigator to the name of the datasource you created:
 The situation should look this way (example):
 TDatabase                   TTable
system: You are Alberto Mariani, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jens Turning Bramstedt about "DBListBox".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Jens Turning Bramstedt to All <=-
JTB> Hi!
JTB> I would want my DBListBox to show the content of a specific field in
JTB> my database so that I can click on it with the mouse to jump to the
JTB> field in the database that I clicked on. I don't really want to add
JTB> all the items manually so my question would be something like how do I
JTB> add all the items of a specific field in my database to the DBListBox
JTB> Display and how do i display the other fields in my database relating
JTB> to the item that I clicked on in the DBListBox?

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assistant: The first part of the question is simply done by writing a cicle like:
 DBListBox1.Items.Clear {Erase all previous strings in the listbox}
 with DataModule1.Table1 do begin
   First; {Takes the pointer to the record to the first position}
   while not(EOF) do begin
     DBListBox1.Add(FieldByName(fieldName).AsString; {Adds the field value
                                                      as a string}
     Next; {Moves to the next record}
   end;
 end;
 The second part is not so easy:
 When the user selects an items in the listbox, you should get the value
 of the item (via the itemindex property and then DBlistBox1.Items[index]);
 then, the field should be in the indexfieldnames property of the table
 (add it, do not erase the names of other fields), then call
 table.findkey(['', '', '', value]) (in this example, i supposed the field
 name you want to use was the 4th in the indexfieldnames property, and
 i'm selecting only by that field: if the values in the field aren't unique,
 you have to select also by other field, which you know are unique to that
 record by replacing the '' with the appropriate value; in this case remember
 to use STRINGS as values (convert them to type string))
 If everything goes well and you use data-aware components (i.e. DBText),
 other controls on the form should change accordingly with the new selection;
 Otherwise, if you use normal components (i.e. TLabel), you have to set their
 values by accessing the table fields. (Label1.Caption:=
 Table.fieldbyname(...).AsString;)
 All this should be put in the method called by the onClick or OnKeyPressed
 or OnKeyDown events (respectively mouse and keyboard events - it depends
 on the type of listbox you use)
 Alberto
system: You are Jens Turning Bramstedt, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Benny Tordrup about "Database > Form Expert".

They wrote:
BT> Have you set your TTable object to Active?

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assistant: I forgot to open the table, so i found this one out myself:), but maybe you
could help me with my other problem(or anyone else). how to display the
content of all entries of a specific field in my database(eg. fieldname:
game) using a DBListBox & go to that field when clicked on in the DBListBox.
MVH
Jens
system: You are Akzhan Abdulin, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Alexander Abramov about "Re: Reports".

They wrote:
AA> � �� ᪠��� �� ��� �����-����� ����� 祫���� �����
AA> ���� �� ���譨� �������� ���⮢ �஬� ReportSmith?
AA> ����⥫쭮 �� �� 㪠���� ���� ��� �� ����� ������!

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assistant: Hello Alexander!
10 Feb 98 17:08, Alexander Abramov ����ᠫ All:
This echoconference is international. Speak English only.
RU.DELPHI echoconference exists specially for Russians.
SeagateSoftware Crystal Reports (i use version 6.0) has a lot of features
like access through Web, subreports, OLE2 support.
Look at http://www.seagatesoftware.com Web site.
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              Akzhan
system: You are Jud Mccranie, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Peter Todd about "RE: NEED INFO ON DELPHI".

They wrote:
PT> That dosn't sound very good.Do you know of any books that would help?
PT> Could a 486 cut it? I *am* crazy. <g>
PT> In what ways though?
PT>> 4: Can you compile your apps for Win3.1?

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assistant: I've bought 4, but the best seems to be "Mastering Delphi x" by
Marco Canto.  Get the one appropriate for the version of Delphi
you are using.  D2 has been replaced by D3.  Only D1 does Win
3.x.
Probably, but they haven't made them for years.
Delphi is based on Pascal instead of BASIC is the main one.
Jud McCranie
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system: You are Benny Tordrup, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Jens Turning Bramstedt about "Database > Form Expert".

They wrote:
JTB> but maybe you could help me with my other problem(or anyone else). how
JTB> to display the content of all entries of a specific field in my
JTB> database(eg. fieldname: game) using a DBListBox & go to that field when
JTB> clicked on in the DBListBox.

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assistant: Hej Jens!
Tirsdag 24. Februar 1998 kl.21:05 skrev Jens Turning Bramstedt til Benny
Tordrup:
No. I have tried (and failed) to make something similar :-(
Benny
system: You are Yves Van Hal, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Peter Todd about "Need info on Delphi".

They wrote:
> 1: What is the learning curve like?
> 2: How good a computer do you need? All I have is a 386 with 4megs ram
>    and a 60meg hard drive. :(
> 3: How does is compare to VB?
> 4: Can you compile your apps for Win3.1?

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assistant: Hi Peter,
This really depends on your current level of skills. If you have never
programmed before, it will take you at least a good book and a month to go
through the basics, but then again that would apply for VB just as well.
Borland recommends at least a 486dx33 with 8 MB RAM. It could run on your
system but you will have to be extremely patient. The hard disk will be your
major bottleneck. It simply is too small and probably quite slow.
If you have not used any other Windows-programming tool, Delphi is clearly
the one to go for. For an amateur that is. From what I see, only few
companies are using it. They prefer C(++) or in some cases VB, because it is
also integrated in the Office product.
With Delphi 1 you can achieve this. Your applications will run quite smoothly
on your system, but for development it is under classed. I have an
application I created running on a 386 with 4MB without any problems.
Hasta la Modem,
Yves
system: You are Pat Pridgen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Thomas W. Mueller about "Need info on Delphi".

They wrote:
PT> 2: How good a computer do you need? All I have is a 386 with 4megs ram
PT>    and a 60meg hard drive. :(
TWM> No chance. Even if you want to run Delphi 1.x (which is no
TWM> longer supported by Borland) you will need at least 16 Megs
TWM> of Memory and the 60 Megs of harddisk space for Delphi
TWM> alone.

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assistant: [In a message from Thomas W. Mueller to Peter Todd ]
I'll have to disagree on this. I'm running D1 on a 486/50 with 8 MBs of
RAM. Granted I haven't tried anything too exotic, and I'd love more RAM,
but it works. But...it does need a fair charge of HD Space though. I
would guess at least 60 MBs.
.                         pat.pridgen@svis.org
.                          La Grande, Oregon
*SignIt 2.x #001*
... Back to the deep dark programmer's womb.(Third womb on the wight)-M.B.
___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30
system: You are Abdullah Mohd, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Janniek Hummelink about "Port...".

They wrote:
-> Problem:  the above written procedure/function do not work with
-> Windows NT.
-> Question: How can I communicate with the Stepmotor Board (Main

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assistant: Think About VXD ... I think All of Devices under NT if you want to talk
to them you must talk to  its VXD.
Abdullah..
system: You are Thomas W. Mueller, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Peter Todd about "Need info on Delphi".

They wrote:
PT> The other languages I know are VB,QBasic,FirstBasic and soon I will
PT> know the Lord II scripting landuage!
TM>> it will be not that steep.
PT>> 2: How good a computer do you need? All I have is a 386 with
TM>> 4megs ram
PT>> and a 60meg hard drive. :(
TM>> No chance. Even if you want to run Delphi 1.x (which is no longer
TM>> supported by Borland) you will need at least 16 Megs of Memory and the
TM>> 60 Megs of harddisk space for Delphi alone.
PT> It's a good thing I will be getting a 486 some time soon.

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assistant: Tach Peter!
am 20 Feb 98 um 18:01:46 schrieb Peter Todd an Thomas W. Mueller:
I don't know much about the other languages but VB isn't a bad start. You
will have to learn something new about variables and parameters but the
general structure of the language is very similar. Pascal has some
enhancements over VB, pe. it can declare procedures and functions that are
local to another procedure:
procedure mainproc;
  procedure Subproc;
    begin
    .. some code here that can only be used in mainproc ..
  end;
  begin
  .. some complex code here that can be made simpler using several calls to
   subproc..
end;
A 486 should be ok for a start but you need ram, ram and more ram ;-)
MfG :-)
Thomas
system: You are Thomas W. Mueller, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "tClientDataset problem".

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assistant: Tach All!
I am using Delphi 3.02 Client Server and tried to use a tClientDataset object
to store a small temporary table. It works fine so far, I can initialise the
table via LoadFromFile and can display it using a db-aware Grid component.
What doesn't work is creating an index with descending order. If I call
CreateIndex with [ixDescending] as the last parameter it creates just a
normal ascending index. I have traced the call down into the VCL until it
calls an external DLL, passing the right parameters.
So what's wrong? Isn't tClientDataset capable of creating descending indexes?
MfG :-)
Thomas
system: You are Ryan Potts, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Abdullah Mohd about "Port...".

They wrote:
AM> Think About VXD ... I think All of Devices under NT if you
AM> want to talk to them you must talk to  its VXD.

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assistant: Abdullah Mohd wrote in a message to Janniek Hummelink:
Win95 uses VxD's.  NT uses Kernel level drivers.  VxD's are not used in NT.
Thanks,
           Ryan
system: You are Janniek Hummelink, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Abdullah Mohd about "Port...".

They wrote:
AM> Think About VXD ... I think All of Devices under NT if you
AM> want to talk
AM> to them you must talk to  its VXD.

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assistant: Thank you for your reply, Abdullah.
Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with VXD.
What is VXD? How can I talk to the devices VXD?
Regards,
Janniek
system: You are Christian Iversen, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Peter Todd about "Need info on Delphi".

They wrote:
PT> 1: What is the learning curve like?
PT> 2: How good a computer do you need? All I have is a 386 with 4megs ram
PT>    and a 60meg hard drive. :(
PT> 3: How does is compare to VB?
PT> 4: Can you compile your apps for Win3.1?

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assistant: Den 23-Feb-1998 R�bte Jeg Helt Vildt Til Peter
 Det Var Om Need info on Delphi Og L�d S�dan Her:
I Don't know, What is a learning curve?
Maybe a little little :)
Much better: Faster,Faster And more Fast. :)
Yes you can, with Delphi 1
 Med Venlig Hilsen: Christian Iversen.
system: You are Thomas W. Mueller, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Yves Van Hal about "Need info on Delphi".

They wrote:
YVH> If you have not used any other Windows-programming tool, Delphi is
YVH> clearly the one to go for. For an amateur that is. From what I see,
YVH> few companies are using it.

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assistant: Tach Yves!
am 21 Feb 98 um 21:55:00 schrieb Yves Van Hal an Peter Todd:
nly
My impression in the UK is that there are a number of companies that use
Delphi. I work for one ;-))
MfG :-)
Thomas
system: You are Peter Todd, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Thomas W. Mueller about "Need info on Delphi".

They wrote:
TM> Tach Peter!
PT> The other languages I know are VB,QBasic,FirstBasic and soon I
TM> will
PT> know the Lord II scripting landuage!
TM> I don't know much about the other languages but VB isn't a bad start.
TM> You will have to learn something new about variables and parameters
TM> but the general structure of the language is very similar. Pascal has
TM> some enhancements over VB, pe. it can declare procedures and functions
TM> that are local to another procedure:
TM> procedure mainproc;
TM>   procedure Subproc;
TM>     begin
TM>     .. some code here that can only be used in mainproc ..
TM>   end;
TM>   begin
TM>   .. some complex code here that can be made simpler using several
TM> calls to  subproc..
TM> end;
TM>> it will be not that steep.
PT>> 2: How good a computer do you need? All I have is a 386 with
TM>> 4megs ram
PT>> and a 60meg hard drive. :(
TM>> No chance. Even if you want to run Delphi 1.x (which is no
TM> longer
TM>> supported by Borland) you will need at least 16 Megs of Memory
TM> and the
TM>> 60 Megs of harddisk space for Delphi alone.
PT> It's a good thing I will be getting a 486 some time soon.
TM> A 486 should be ok for a start but you need ram, ram and more ram ;-)

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assistant: ???
I'll like thouse enhancements!
Looks useful.
And more ram,ram and more ram to rembember that I need more ram...
... - Madonna
"I'm sure that love could never be a product of plasti
system: You are Jon Hunt, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Easter Egg".

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assistant: Hello All!
Sorry if this is not considered valid content for this echo.
Is it common knowledge?  In Delphi 1, click on the about screen, and
whilst it is displayed, hold down Alt and type AND.  I presume its a
picture of the author, and it winks too. :)
Slan,
Jon
.:. Dew knot trussed yore spell checquer two fined awl mistakes
system: You are Jon Hunt, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Runtime Libs".

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assistant: All,
Nobody replied to this, I will try again, in case it did not go out.
=============================================================================
* Forwarded by Jon Hunt (2:263/500.1)
* Area : DELPHI
* From : Jon Hunt, 2:263/500.1 (18-Feb-98  21:30:27)
* To   : All
* Subj : Runtime Libs
=============================================================================
All,
Am I missing something here?  I want to compile a stand alone EXE, ie
with the runtime libraries included.  I ticked the box in the project
options window, but it doesn't include them, If I try and run it on a
machine where D3 is not installed, it tells me I am missing VCL30.DPL.
I have not changed the library paths or anything, any ideas?
... Suffering from kleptomania?  Take something for it!
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 - Origin: Concilium Orb BBS - REC26 - +353 54 66965 - 24 Hours (2:263/500.1)
=============================================================================
.:. Did I read a different driving manual than everyone else?
system: You are Alberto Mariani, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to Peter Todd about "Need info on Delphi".

They wrote:
-=> Quoting Peter Todd to All <=-
PT> 2: How good a computer do you need? All I have is a 386 with 4megs ram
PT> and a 60meg hard drive. :(
PT> 4: Can you compile your apps for Win3.1?

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assistant: Delphi 1 should run (under win 3.1) but would be _very_ slow (maybe an
 upgrade...)
 Yes, with version 1, versions 2 & 3 are win95/NT (with SP2+) only
system: You are Abdunnaser Althobity, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Delphi message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "linking to web page".

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assistant: Hi all :-)
This is my first post to FidoNet and also to this Delphi conf., I was on
ly
watching posts and replys and I did ENJOY them really ( I'm glad I post
here ! ).
Important thing to say is :
I have Delphi 2 on my system ( Pentium-100 + 32 Megs of RAM ), I did cal
l
ShellExecute from ShellAPI to link to my web page with no success.  I sa
w in a previous
message here the same thing and some one reply and say use this function
 as follows :
ShellExecute('http://www.foosite.com');
I've tried ShellExecuteEx also with no success as ShellExecute !
Can anyone help ??