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@NormanDunbar Glad that your PICNIC went well. :D And that's a quite nice document you've got there. It really extends on a lot of details for beginners, which I did not want to include into the wiki. But if you find some final location for it somewhere, I'll gladly link it from the FPC Wiki page. I...

@NormanDunbar Rebuilding the crosscompiler is certainly needed, in fact this is exactly the error you should get if you use a too old compiler with the current RTL. __fpc_program_name is the symbol the compiler should generate. Omitting the program keyword doesn't change it, the compiler will still ...

@pjw
Something tells me the bar wasn't set too high, but hey. Any victory is a victory! Anyway, as said earlier, now documented.

OK, so based on all the feedback above, I just committed the following features into SVN trunk: - have a 48 byte ($30) buffer for a job name - use FPC_PROG as a default job name, wired into the binary - have pair of QL-specific calls in the system unit: SetQLJobName and GetQLJobName, to allow easy m...

Well I believe you, but I was following the docs here, which doesn't list a QDOS naming for this call: http://qdosmsq.dunbar-it.co.uk/doku.php?id=qdosmsq:traps:trap_3:start Sooo... Anything? :) FS_MKDIR maybe? I have another question: how long a job name is allowed to be? For now all generated execu...

@NormanDunbar:
OK, now also the do_rename() and the do_mkdir() patch by you should be included in SVN trunk, although I did a small refactor, and as I previously indicated, I factored out the inline asm snippets into separate asm wrapper functions.

So here's the current state of FPC SVN trunk. It has somewhat working command line arguments handling (read: ParamCount and ParamStr() works now), and file I/O seems to be largely OK, although the Seek() changes need to be tested more thoroughly: https://twitter.com/chainq/status/1380914243416043522...

I did not merge the FS_POSAB and FS_POSRE changes, because the idea is, these are OS API functions, and should return what the OS returns, always. Therefore the ERR_EF issue must be dealt with in the Pascal code which uses these functions. So I made some changes in the Pascal code instead. This is ...

@Norman Tonight I made a selective merge of your patches into FPC's trunk. The main changes are on top of what you did: - Code style, here and there - I did not merge the FS_POSAB and FS_POSRE changes, because the idea is, these are OS API functions, and should return what the OS returns, always. Th...

It's unfortunately, still not working for me. I'll see what the debugger says. Sorry, I wasn't too precise. You have to put -Tsinclairql before any line where these config variables/templates related to the target are resolved. So -Tsinclairql has to be before the -Fu lines. The config file is just...