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From: fer9483@tesla.njit.edu
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: BufLen
Message-ID: <1214@tesla.njit.edu>
Date: 25 Feb 91 12:08:25 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Is there a procedure/function in Turbo Pascal 5.0 and higher that is like
the 3.0 BufLen?  If not, what is a good way to only allow the user
to input up to a specified # of characters?  Read each one one at a time,
and increment a counter or something?

-Frank Rachel