Ting-Chiao Chu wrote in a message to Ryan Potts:
 TC> I hope you are wrong. Otherwise Borland is going too far
 TC> away from (standard) pascal with Delpi.
I could not port a 16 bit dos/windows pascal record into delphi2 without 
getting the record elements to line up unless PACKED was used.  Otherwise the 
delphi2 compiler spreads the record elements out in increments of 4 bytes (32 
bits).  ie a variable of type REAL doesn't take up 6 bytes in an unpacked 
record it takes up 8.
Thanks,
           Ryan 
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