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From: murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: TP-5.0 can't do ``write(<bytefile>, <constant>);''
Keywords: Turbo Pascal, TeXware
Message-ID: <1771@pur-phy>
Date: 7 Jan 89 16:25:50 GMT
References: <12976@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Reply-To: murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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I don't have my manuals for Turbo 4/5, but you may need to tell
write(tfmfile, 255) that 255 is a byte (short integer). Also,
you could try write(tfmfile, SizeOf(tfmfile));

What you posted was
type byte 0..255;
var tfmfile : packed file of byte;
write(tfmfile, 255); 
 
Did you mean
type byte 0..255;
var tfmfile : byte;
write(tfmfile, 255);

Just a thought.
Bill Murphy
murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu