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From: R_Tim_Coslet@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Turbo Pascal: file input buffers
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Date: 10 Apr 88 12:46:11 GMT
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Steve Freed   (cs2531cd@charon.unm.edu)  writes:
>I need a little help with Turbo Pascal dealing with files and the
>input buffer (window, pointer, what ever you like to call it).
>
>My documentation seems to neatly skip over this little gem, and I am

There is a very good reason why the Turbo Pascal Doc.s skip over this:
it is because Borland chose not to implement Standard Pascal I/O...

I do not consider Turbo Pascal to be "Real Pascal" for that reason.

The _ONLY_ I/O inplemented directly in Turbo Pascal is via the
READ(), READLN(), WRITE(), WRITELN() procedures.


I will probably get flamed by the Turbo Fanatics out there but this
is my opinion of Turbo. besides I tried to mail this and had it returned
for "host unknown".			R. Tim Coslet