On (11 Jun 95) Paul Edwards wrote to Bob Lawrence...



 BL> Ahh... I've just discovered blockread() and buffers. It's much

 BL> faster this way.



 PE> Is that part of the Pascal standard?



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



 PE> ie, no.



if i remember correctly, the original pascal standard contained no i/o

statements, it was purely a teaching aid.



                        Keith



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