how can I run an external program from within a Delphi program?

I was messing with own Delphi components, and I had some troubles with published stringlists. This page helped me out.

To retrieve the last generated id by a database insert, you can use mysql_insert_id for MySql and @@identity for MS SQL server.

I'm using a `normal' network card, and a wireless one. I was wondering if I could persuade Windows to use the wireless card for one range of ip-adresses, and the normal card for all the rest.

This seems to be possible using the route utility. Just route the ip-range to the corresponding gateway.

To limit the number of rows a MS SQL query returns, the TOP Clause can be used.

I used to add database users with phpMyAdmin, but the syntax of grant is not that difficult after all.

Slackware guide for AMP Apache MySQL and PHP. Because mysql would not start after a standard installation.

String functions in Delphi, C++, Java, Basic.

Previously I figured out how to boot Linux using grub commands. However, after e.g. a failed Linux installation, booting Windows can be useful as well.

`DATEDIFF' returns the number of date and time boundaries crossed between two specified dates.

`How to read a binary file into a string' and How to recurse subdirectories'.

Never thought I would be needing this again: Multiple configuration config.sys and autoexec.bat.

Since my TCP/IP experiments with FreeDOS were not that successfull (could not get clients to work), I upgraded to (brr!) Windows 3.11. The Kotnet page on TCP/IP for Windows 3.11 turned out to be very useful.

I managed to install TCP/IP networking on an old 386 computer with 4MB of memory and a 3Com Etherlink III ISA nic. You need Microsoft's Network Client for MS-DOS, and an example of tcputils.ini is helpful to make DNS work.

Debian GNU/Linux Installation with Knoppix and debootstrap