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From: duvalj@prism.cs.orst.edu (Joseph Edward Duval)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Constant declarations of type RECORD in UNIX pascal
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Date: 26 Jul 89 22:56:32 GMT
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I am trying to declare a constant in my UNIX (HP) pascal program that is
is of TYPE record.  In the manual it says it can be done but says nothing
about how.  Does anyone out there know how to do this?

What I have now is:

	type
		sequence = record
		    first : byte;
		    next : byte;
		    pcount : byte;
		    param : packed array [1..8] of byte;
		    private : byte;
		    inter : byte;
		    nxtlast : byte;
		    last : byte;
		end;

	.
	.
	.
	const
		NUL = 0;
		NULSEQ = sequence (NUL, NUL, NUL,
				(NUL, NUL, NUL, NUL, NUL, NUL, NUL, NUL),
				  (NUL, NUL, NUL, NUL);

This doesn't work.

Thanks for the help!
			- Joe Duval  {duvalj@prism.CS.ORST.EDU}