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On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 14:58:26 -0700 (PDT), dik <quagga5@fastmail.fm>
wrote:

It's kind of you to help him out - but I still maintain that if
someone is using that code as part of teaching the OP how to write
Pascal, then he needs a new teacher. Unless the aim of the exercise is
to get the OP to tidy the program up, of course...

Brian. 


>   the main problem appears to be that the file STDMove2.p
>   found on the internet is not end-of-line compatible with
>   turbo pascal - which requires the carriage-return
>   line-feed pair used in DOS.
>
>   one way to fix this is to load STDMove2.p into WORDPAD and
>   save it as a DOS text file. in fact, i wrote a small
>   filter in turbo pascal that corrected line endings and
>   converted tabs to 3 spaces instead of the usual 8. i named
>   the result STDMOVE2.PAS
>
>   although the program has a long USES line, in fact it
>   depends on none of these units to compile. i deleted the
>   USES line.
>
>   the program writes results to the screen and echoes them
>   to a log file. i added an 'assign' statement to name that
>   log STDMOVE2.OUT
>
>   if you type and run in a dosbox:
>
>      TPC STDMOVE2.PAS
>
>   the resulting executable can be run by typing
>
>      STDMOVE2.EXE
>
>   if you want to modify the source then perhaps try the IDE:
>
>      TURBO STDMOVE2.PAS
>
>   or just modify STDMOVE2.PAN in something like NOTEPAD
>   being careful that whatever editor is used ends lines in a
>   DOS-like manner.
>
>   turbo pascal 5.5 is a wonderful program to take on
>   problems like the one experimented with here. in the GUI
>   intense world that exploded after TP5's day - one forgets
>   how pleasant and effective it is to tackle something
>   profound with just a tiny first-class command line
>   compiler that writes so smoothly to the console and disk.
>
>   good luck - richard
>
>   you can download some results of what i did here:
>
>      http://quagga5.fastmail.fm/STDMOVE.ZIP
>
>   which contains:
>
>      STDMOVE2.PAS - slightly modified and still messy source
>      STDMOVE2.EXE - compiled executable
>      TPC.EXE      - Turbo Pascal Compiler 5.5
>      TURBO.EXE    - the IDE
>      TURBO.TPL    - the run-time library
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