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From: claudio@forty2.UUCP (Claudio Nieder)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Cross Compiling
Message-ID: <1116@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 89 13:35:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: forty2.1116
References: <&89-11-06-16:38:24.69*UK4H"@DKAUNI2.BITNET>
Reply-To: claudio@forty2.UUCP (Claudio Nieder)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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In article <&89-11-06-16:38:24.69*UK4H"@DKAUNI2.BITNET> Modula2 List <INFO-M2%UCF1VM.BITNET@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> writes:
>A case in point: Read(CHER) (from InOut) takes, as defined by Wirth,
>any key$from the ke}board. So
>   Read(ch);
>will wait for the first key pressed, be mt an 'A', a space or ENTER.Now MacMETH does as Wirth tells us, but M2Amiga does not (at least
>not from plain InOut without iddling with the OS); you need a
>RETURN (or ENTER) to terminate that.

Which in this case isn't strictly the fault of the compiler. Sometimes the OS
may influence on the behaviour of the Modules too. The AmigaDos console 
replys to any read command only after a full line of text was read in, to 
allow user to correct the line before the type return.

				claudio