First of all excusme for my little english. I'm new and I haven't experience with GPC, in fact I don't like Pascal very much. But I need to do a work for the university. The version I run is: Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.8.1/specs gpc version 19990118, based on gcc-2.8.1 And I have some problems comparing strings. If I compile and run the next program: Program test; var a,b:string(20); begin a:='Hello'; b:='Bye'; if(a<b) then writeln('Hello<Bye'); if(a>b) then writeln('Hello>Bye'); if(b<a) then writeln('Bye<Hello'); if(b>a) then writeln('Bye>Hello'); end. The output generated is: Bye<Hello Bye>Hello And, logically it isn't very nice :-) My question is simple: why the program don't function as desired? Or, if the error is mine, What I do bad? Postdate: I need to compile the program in the metionated version, and I can't update to a newer (university's administrators are not very servicial) Thus, if we can give a solution for the above version I'll be very happy. Otherwise I will be to codify strings with arrays of chars. Please , if someone reply to this message can send a copy to jpujo012@correu.udg.es Thanks And, another time excusme for me english.