The archive contains a collection of small units; in the past some of the
units were available separately.

The units and basic test programs can be compiled with the usual Pascal
(TP5/5.5/6, BP7, VP 2.1, FPC 1.0/2.0/2.2/2.4/2.6/3+) and Delphi (1..7/9/
10/12/17/18) versions.

Online help is available as Windows .hlp file or as a .tph for BP7 IDE.

 * Base2N V0.41: General base 2**N conversion routines (N=1...6)

 * Bitarray V0.19: Bit array context with max. 524160 bits (spin off from
   MPArith 16 bit prime sieve)

 * BTypes V0.21: Portable common basic types

 * Compvers V0.35: Compiler version as string or symbol

 * Dates V0.35: Implements compiler and OS independent routines for the
   current date and time (including milliseconds since midnight) and functions
   for Julian day numbers.

 * Hrtimer V0.28: Contains a high resolution timer for most Pascal/Delphi
   compilers using the comp data type. It uses the RDTSC instruction,
   therefore it will stop on machines that do not support RDTSC (this feature
   can be turned off via $ifdef). The timer is used by several optimizing test
   programs.

 * memh V0.15: Implements portable heap memory allocation functions

 * Mem_util V0.99: Implements compiler independent routines for comparing
   memory blocks and converting memory blocks to HEX and Base64 strings.

 * Ministat V0.45: Statistics unit with accurate "on the fly" statistics
   routines for one and two variables.

 * Sort V1.18: General QuickSort, HeapSort (standard and bottom-up), CombSort
   routines using swap/compare functions. Additional pointer versions have a
   typeless data pointer that is carried through the functions and can be used
   to access local data etc. by the caller.

 * std.inc V1.65: Standard include file for compiler detection, standard
   definitions, options.

 * Tsc V0.41: This unit has a more low level access to the Time Stamp Counter
   than hrtimer and additionally defines a system dependent low resolution
   counter (GetTickCount, 18.2 Hz Systick, or milliseconds since midnight) if
   RDTSC support is not available.


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Last changes (Sep. 2015)

* Compvers V0.35 supports FPC 3.0.0 and Delphi 23 (VER300),

* Standard include file std.inc V1.65 with basic support for D23

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