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From: mecklenburg@storm.dnet.nasa.gov
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Subject: RE: SEEKING PROBLEMS ABOUT TURBO PASCAL
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Date: 20 Dec 90 16:38:56 GMT
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  I am a fairly recent member of this bulletin board, and because I am
only a sophomore at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, my computer
programs I write in TP5.5 are usually less than 750 lines.  My question is:
why, in some programs, does a write or writeln statement sometimes "fix"
a program?  For example, the output of a program may be full of garbage, or
there may be characters missing or whatever, and when I put in a WRITE
or WRITELN statement, it seems like the TP Gods have waved a magic wand 
or something and presto!.. the program works. This is something I have
not seen addressed in this board, but it's probably a silly question.  Try
not to laugh to hard.

                  Thanks,     Rick