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From: jlg0805@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Read Files, How?
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Date: 30 May 90 05:17:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!jlg0805    May 30 00:17:00 1990


On standard Pascal, how can one interactively input a file name, then
ask the program to read the file; ask the program to load another 
file and repeat the same thing.

as my understanding, the external file name shoud appear in the program
header.  However, this only works if actually there is a file with that
very name.  If files have different names, then the machine gives an
error. (mine is a sequent running unix), telling me "file not existent" 
or something like that.

how to solve this problem? i hope it is not that one recompiles the 
program for each new file.


--The profs never teach useful practical things but stuff like AVL trees
  in class. :-(

J.Liang
jlg0805@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu