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echo: pascal
to: DAN TRACZYNSKI
from: MIKE COPELAND
date: 1998-04-25 22:01:00
subject: Input, Output?

 SL> I think I've asked this before, but I forgot :)
 SL> What is the purpose of the (Input, Output) on the end of the 'Program
 SL> xxx' line? I have never used it myself and all my programs seem to work
 SL> fine. 
 DT> It's a relic from past versions of TP.  You don't need it in your
 DT> program, in fact, you don't even need a 'program' statement at all.
   In TP/BP, that's true, but I've always felt that the Program
statement provides a nice bit of useful documentation that's otherwise
missing in programs which merely start with "Uses".  The name of the
program can be a valuable piece of information, IMHO...
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