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From: jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879)
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Subject: IBM RS-6000 Pascal - lazy I/O
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Date: 7 May 91 19:20:52 GMT
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I'm having an argument (through intermediaries) with IBM about IBM's RS 6000
Pascal implementation.  They say that they conform to the ISO standard, and
that as a result, they have no need to change.

I say that their implementation of interactive I/O is wrong because they
don't do lazy I/O the same way as DEC, Prime, Sun, Berkeley Pascal, and
OMSI Pascal (to name a few that run my old programs compatibly).

They say that they do it the same as Turbo Pascal, and that should be enough.

So -- what can I do?  Is there a standard for lazy I/O behavior in Pascal?
Are there some "recognized experts" or "recognized authoritative
implementations" I can point to?
					Doug Jones
					jones@cs.uiowa.edu