On (13 Jun 95) Paul Edwards wrote to Keith Richardson...



 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.



 PE> I'm talking about the Pascal standard created by ANSI, and if 

 PE> that doesn't define a form of IO, I'll eat my mouse, and my

 PE> mousemat.  What it doesn't have is strings for starters, you

 PE> have to use character arrays.  BFN.  Paul.



dunno, i have never been interested enough to study the ansi version.



                        Keith



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