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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal vs. the Input standard
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Date: Sun, 21-Jun-87 21:09:48 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun 21 21:09:48 1987
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As quoted from <32100007@bucc2> by nez@bucc2.UUCP:
+---------------
| 	I tried using the standard file 'Con' and it compiled without
| errors (since my program was as useful as your code fragment, I don't
| know whether it's free of run-time errors.) 
| 	You can use the input files 'Con' and 'Kbd' and output files
| 'Con' and 'Trm' for standard i/o. (Characters input with 'Kbd' aren't
| echoed to the screen.)
+---------------

No, you can't; I was trying to accept "pr < file" or "pr file"; using Con or
Trm doesn't get redirected input from a file.

As it turned out, I had to include a "program pr(Input, Output);" at the
beginning to get it to work; I usually leave this off because I consider
the standard Pascal way of declaring files to be a major lossage.  (Then
again, it seems to have been devised for card-fed systems where you have
to associate logical files with physical files at the JCL level.)

++Brandon
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