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From: ddavidso@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.OZ (Dean Davidson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: (none)
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Date: 23 Jan 90 20:46:25 GMT
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In article <22158@adm.BRL.MIL> I2010506%DBSTU1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
>Date: 22 January 1990, 14:48:27 MEZ
>From: Christian Boettger        +49 (0)531 3915113 / I2010506 at DBSTU1
>
>> ...
>>bios_shift_status := bios_shift_status + num_lock;     <---ERROR
>>...
>I tried to compile this, the result was "Error 23: Type mismatch".

Try :
bios_shift_status := bios_shift_status + [num_lock];

As I understand it num_lock is "converted" to a set type by the []

D