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From: soper@maxzilla.encore.com (Pete Soper)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: pascal-2 bugs ?
Message-ID: <12838@encore.Encore.COM>
Date: 1 Oct 90 20:22:28 GMT
References: <1990Oct1.193803.5225@wpi.WPI.EDU>
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From article <1990Oct1.193803.5225@wpi.WPI.EDU>, by kamal@wpi.WPI.EDU (Kamal Z Zamli):
  (trivial program omitted)

>>Pascal-2 4.00 (r0)  Encore UMAX4.2 30-Sep-90   4:44 AM              Page 1-1
>>pas.p
>>
>>    7      end
>>             ^9
>>***  9: Use '.' after main program body
> 

> Did you put a carriage return after the "end ." statement ?
> I dont't know why but i think you do need it ...

  Yes, this is the problem. The original poster's text editor must somehow 
have left off the final newline in the source file.
  Sorry I didn't respond to this sooner. After skipping over thousands of Turbo
Pascal postings my eyes must have glazed over. (No offense to TP intended!)
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