Re: read shows surprising results

On Feb 16, 7:55 am, "Richard Engebretson" <e...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Feb 16, 1:34 am, Dirk Weber <dirk-we...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> Hi,
> Please feel comfortable asking these questions.
>
> First, realize that what looks like simple code already has a ton of
> background code. You are working on linux, not DOS. So including the
> CRT unit already messes you up. Using clrscr; invites a lot of runtime
> errors, especially from the fp IDE.
>
> A good approach on linux is to use xterm. It is the equivalent of a
> DOS CRT, except you can have 50 of them running simultaneously. So you
> are already far beyond TurboPascal on DOS. Each xterm, when active,
> has read and write called standard input and output. This is where
> gentoo is nice, it will open new xterms in your working directory. You
> can compile in one xterm, with a great fpc error message system. Then
> run in another xterm.
>
I ran your code without CRT and clrscr but it still performed as you
said. The runtime error message is in the FPC Users Manual. Error 106
is "re****ted when a non-numeric value is read from a text file when a
numeric value was expected."

My Cooper version of Oh, Pascal 1992 does not have this example that I
could find.

That is why there are experts (Not me).