[lazarus] Why is this not working? (PChar conversion)

[Tony]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:

>On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Tony wrote:
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>>But this line generates an illegal type conversion:
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>>  p := PChar(FComments);
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>>Any ideas?
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>Is FComments an ansistring or a shortstring, IOW, did you use {$H+} ?
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>Michael.
>

You guys are so smart!  ;-)  (in other words I'm stoopid sometimes.)  
Thanks!  I knew that {$H+} and {$mode delphi} should be there but in 
porting the unit never added them.

Thanks,

-Tony