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From: gm@romeo.cs.duke.edu (Greg McGary)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: TP-5.0 can't do ``write(<bytefile>, <constant>);''
Keywords: Turbo Pascal, TeXware
Message-ID: <12976@duke.cs.duke.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 89 16:51:47 GMT
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Turbo-Pascal 5.0 has troubles compiling some TeXware containing these
fragments:

type byte = 0..255;
var tfmfile: packed file of byte;

{ This won't compile:
  TP complains that it wants to see an identifier, not a constant }
write(tfmfile, 255);

{ This is a successful workaround, but it's gross... }
var xx: byte;
xx := 255; write(tfmfile, xx);

Thanks for all assistance!
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