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Luowy, thank you very much. It works.

- Helmut

When an odc document uses a font, which I have not installed on my computer, how can I get the name of this missing font? Selecting the text and clicking with right mouse button -> Properties doesn't show the missing font name. It shows the font name which is used instead.
- Helmut

Sorry I don't understand your problem. You can optimize your procedure to PROCEDURE WriteHex(i: INTEGER); VAR minWidth: INTEGER; BEGIN minWidth := 1; W.WriteIntForm(i, TextMappers.hexadecimal, minWidth, "0", FALSE) END WriteHex; and have the same behaviour. - Helmut

I suggested in 2.0 to add prefix system and new procedure Files.dir.This('custom:').GetPath*(OUT path: ARRAY OF CHAR) So it will be possible to get locator in custom directory and then extract it's text representation. Do you like this idea. The same for use Files.dir.This('use:').GetPath*(OUT path...

Thank you very much for all the links and explanation. It is difficult to follow the discussions via Google translation, because I don't understand some arguments. Now I know 3 important changes of version 1.8 1. Separation of module String and Unicode 2. Move back to the original 1.6 File interface...

Without any change list plus the missing entry in the source header e.g. HostFiles - 20210116, bbcb, #045, restore Files interface to 1.6 - 20210517, bbcb, #0xx, Three levels of file system It is difficult to find all changes and I need a very long time to proof them. I have the following comments t...

Without any change list plus the missing entry in the source header

e.g. HostFiles
- 20210116, bbcb, #045, restore Files interface to 1.6
- 20210517, bbcb, #0xx, Three levels of file system

It is difficult to find all changes and I need a very long time to proof them.

I test my program DosAbout on this version and get the system and the user directory.
How to get the custom directory in an application program?

It is difficult to follow all changes.
For example I did not realize the topic about the three levels of file system (use-custom-system)-directory.
Where can I find a list of changes?
On which Center version based BB 1.8 ?
Are there all Center changes included in BB 1.8 ?
Which one left out?

In BlackBox version 1.7 we introduce reading and writing files greater than 2 GByte via new modules called Files64, HostFiles64 and Stores64. Can we merge or exchange Files64 with Files, HostFiles64 with HostFile and Stores 64 with Store? This is not an easy task and the result will be not compatibl...