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From: mglacy@lamar.ColoState.EDU
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Subject: Re: IBM RS-6000 Pascal - lazy I/O
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Date: 7 May 91 22:12:50 GMT
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In article <5942@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) writes:
>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
.......
What is "Lazy I/O?"  I've been writing Pascal applications for the RS
6000, too, but haven't had this problem. (But, I'm primarily a 
TP user; my code *does* work under Vax VMS Pascal as well as TP
and RS 6000).

---Mike Lacy