PE> Is that part of the Pascal standard?

BL>   It's Turbo Pascal, I think. Pacal is weak on reading files.

PE> ie, no.

KR> if i remember correctly, the original pascal standard contained no i/o
KR> statements, it was purely a teaching aid.

I'm talking about the Pascal standard created by ANSI, and if 
that doesn't define a form of IO, I'll eat my mouse, and my
mousemat.  What it doesn't have is strings for starters, you
have to use character arrays.  BFN.  Paul.
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