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   Marco van de Voort to dk_sz@hotmail.com   
   Re: USB Support in BP7   
   13 Apr 06 09:44:22   
   
   From: marcov@stack.nl   
      
   On 2006-04-12, dk_sz  wrote:   
   >> if you already need a GUI app. for the barcode communication, why not   
   >> write the entire app. in Delphi? It's not too hard to learn!   
   >>   
   >> There even is a USB4DOS Package available, but the high price of it   
   >> prevents it to become a cash cow...   
   >> I already thought about writing a general USB stack for DOS, but for me   
   >> this is simply too much work in a field where I have too few knowledge.   
   >   
   > Or perhaps even FreePascal / Lazarus ? (I dunno about USB though)   
      
   Same as Delphi on Windows, and on DOS, the dos version of FPC has no more   
   access to the win32 layer than 16-bit BP programs to my knowledge.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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