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tbarnettsgf

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Turbopower Software Turbo Professional
« on: March 20, 2020, 01:32:36 am »
Has the Turbopower software package Turbo Professional 5.22 been ported for Lazarus?  I have an old program that is still in use that I need to get data out of.  I need the tpdos unit right now.  Any help would be appreciated.
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Re: Turbopower Software Turbo Professional
« Reply #1 on: March 20, 2020, 03:02:18 am »
Did you mean TurboPower FlashFiler? It is already supported by Lazarus/FPC:

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Databases

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Re: Turbopower Software Turbo Professional
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2020, 06:54:23 am »
as far as I know no one has ported async pro to lcl. If your project is windows only, you might be able to do a dirty port in a weekend if you need linux macos etc then a better bet would be the CLX version since it already has the linux support build in but you might suffer from "backward  compatibility" breakage on the kernel level.

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Re: Turbopower Software Turbo Professional
« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2020, 10:13:38 pm »
Thanks very much for the responses.  There was a product called Turbo Professional that took over many of the built in Turbo Pascal functions.  It was called Turbo Professional.  i owned that product.  Unfortunately I was only provided the compiled "tpu" files and not the source.  It has some functions that if I recall correctly did data file block sizes on the fly both write and read.  It's been quite a while.  Anyway I have a bunch of data stored with those strategies.  I'd like to recover that data for a new purpose.  Again thx for the responses..  Tom

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Re: Turbopower Software Turbo Professional
« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2020, 10:25:34 pm »
Thanks very much for the responses.  There was a product called Turbo Professional that took over many of the built in Turbo Pascal functions.  It was called Turbo Professional.  i owned that product.  Unfortunately I was only provided the compiled "tpu" files and not the source.  It has some functions that if I recall correctly did data file block sizes on the fly both write and read.  It's been quite a while.  Anyway I have a bunch of data stored with those strategies.  I'd like to recover that data for a new purpose.  Again thx for the responses..  Tom
you will have to be a bit more specific on the framework it self ee which was the publisher the purpose etc. Its obvious that I have no idea what this library is or how to help but if you provide some info on what it did or how you used along with some sample data files I might be able to help you retrieve the data.

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Re: Turbopower Software Turbo Professional
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2020, 11:55:03 pm »
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tpbtreefiler/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/tpopro/

a bit of google gives a list of Turbo Power sources at sf.net https://www.google.com/search?channel=trow2&client=firefox-b-d&q=turbopower+sourceforget+overview

Note most turbo pascal software contains asm and 16-bit specific code and might not always port to Lazarus easily.

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Re: Turbopower Software Turbo Professional
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2020, 11:57:20 pm »
https://sourceforge.net/projects/tpbtreefiler/

a bit of google gives a list of Turbo Power sources at sf.net https://www.google.com/search?channel=trow2&client=firefox-b-d&q=turbopower+sourceforget+overview
If I'm correct in my assumptions I think the that Turbo professional is the object professional library from turbo power which is not open sourced although there is a repo in sf.net for it.

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Re: Turbopower Software Turbo Professional
« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2020, 12:14:14 am »
There was a product called Turbo Professional that took over many of the built in Turbo Pascal functions.  It was called Turbo Professional.  i owned that product.  Unfortunately I was only provided the compiled "tpu" files and not the source.
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Re: Turbopower Software Turbo Professional
« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2020, 07:22:42 am »
If I'm correct in my assumptions I think the that Turbo professional is the object professional library from turbo power which is not open sourced although there is a repo in sf.net for it.
They released almost all of their software as open source, except for some code that wasn't deemed to be in a releasable state or otherwise license-able.
the SF and GIT repositories should contain the licenses. Just in case: everything is MPL so very liberal.
It caused quite a stir when they decided to release everything as open source.
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Specialize a type, not a var.

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Re: Turbopower Software Turbo Professional
« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2020, 07:30:37 am »
If I'm correct in my assumptions I think the that Turbo professional is the object professional library from turbo power which is not open sourced although there is a repo in sf.net for it.
They released almost all of their software as open source, except for some code that wasn't deemed to be in a releasable state or otherwise license-able.
the SF and GIT repositories should contain the licenses. Just in case: everything is MPL so very liberal.
It caused quite a stir when they decided to release everything as open source.
and what that has to do with my answer exactly? Sorry if I missed something obvious.

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Re: Turbopower Software Turbo Professional
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2020, 07:31:55 am »
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and what that has to do with my answer exactly? Sorry if I missed something obvious.
You wrongly state it is not open sourced. That confuses people.
And the correct repo's are here: https://github.com/TurboPack
Specialize a type, not a var.

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Re: Turbopower Software Turbo Professional
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2020, 07:45:47 am »
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and what that has to do with my answer exactly? Sorry if I missed something obvious.
You wrongly state it is not open sourced. That confuses people.
I stated that the turbo power Object professional is not open sourced and its not. If I'm wrong please provide a link to the source code.
And the correct repo's are here: https://github.com/TurboPack
No they are not! Those are the modern packages that allows integration in the new delphi package manager other than that, they offer nothing of value.

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Re: Turbopower Software Turbo Professional
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2020, 10:00:52 am »
Oh, well. Did it occur to you that some re-naming did place since 2003?
That company, while ending, did really release almost all of their software under MPL.
That includes code that holds patents. You can ask Julian Bucknall. If you do not know who he is, stop responding.
https://boyet.com/
(he is funny and a fine actor...?! ... Julian? this is a pun of some kind but also true....Did I mention his Volvo?)

(and I hope 440bx can confirm is not Julian....  :o ,  Or Sven, or Marco...or even Florian or Michael or maybe Jonas?)
Anyway, silly season and weekend.
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Specialize a type, not a var.

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Re: Turbopower Software Turbo Professional
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2020, 10:39:27 am »
Oh, well. Did it occur to you that some re-naming did place since 2003?
That company, while ending, did really release almost all of their software under MPL.
stop talking and show me the code for object professional.

Let me say it again, there is a repository in sourceforge.net for object professional created by Turbopower, the source code for that library never got released in to that repository when the rest of the source code got released.

That includes code that holds patents. You can ask Julian Bucknall. If you do not know who he is, stop responding.
https://boyet.com/

(he is funny and a fine actor...?! ... Julian? this is a pun of some kind but also true....Did I mention his Volvo?)
Are you senile or something? Do you understand what I'm talking about? Should I just ignore you?




 

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