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From: jjs%mykeiko@Sun.COM (James Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Sun Pascal bug?
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Date: 3 Mar 88 00:55:28 GMT
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In article <14411@oddjob.UChicago.EDU> vinson@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Michael Vinson) writes:
>I am using Sun UNIX Pascal, and I have a problem that is annoying in
>the extreme. The problem is as simple as it is absurd: when I try to
>compile a program that read a string (i.e. a packed array of char) from
>a text (yes text) file, the compiler tells me "Can't read strings from 
>a text file"!!! This is crazy. It means, for example the the following
>lines won't work:
>
>var FileName : packed array[1..80] of char;
>...
>write('Enter file name: ');
>readln(FileName);
>
>This is a pain in the *ss! Does anyone have any ideas/solutions/remedies?
>(I mean, I can always read in a string one char at a time, but I shouldn't
>have to. If you can't read strings from a text file, which includes standard
>input, what can you read them from?)
>
>Michael Vinson

This problem/feature has been fixed. I don't know what to say
other than that in the Pascal 1.1 realease I/O is better.

James Simon