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From: mchupa@brahms.udel.edu (Michael A Chupa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Readln in THINK Pascal; (really--what's the space for?)
Summary: Think thinks a CR is a space
Keywords: eoln, space
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Date: 13 Feb 91 13:48:08 GMT
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> Rich Siegel	Symantec Languages Group  Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu
 gave a helpful response to a problem with an unexpected end of file error.

A related topic that comes up very often in my HS programming classes is 
Think Pascal's handling of CR's in text files. For example, if eoln(f) is
true, then the effect of doing a read(f,ch) is that ch = ' ', instead of
ch = chr(13) (ascii CR). I'm curious as to why this handling of returns was
done--it is the (absolutely!) only thing I prefer Turbo 1.1 over Think on!
Mike