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From: dgiles@polyslo.UUCP (Darren Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: TML Pascal problem solved
Message-ID: <2144@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 29 Apr 88 08:29:09 GMT
Reply-To: dgiles@polyslo.UUCP (Darren Giles)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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  I finally figured out the solution to the problem of addressing
individual bytes in a file.  Not only do the bytes to be written out have
to be of the right type (TYPE byte= 0..255), but the file itself have
to be of the right type (and 0..255 doesn't work, but 0..127 does, for
some bizzare reason).

  Don't get me wrong here - I love TML Pascal - but if you define a file
as type char, what possible reason would there be for wasting an extra
byte for each character (it stores characters as two bytes)?
 
                                             - Darren