According to Andreas Bauer:

JJvdH> type JJvdH> word = __unsigned__ integer; You should call it longword. I had some trouble, because I declared a word like this and i wondered that the entries after flags had some errors :) Perhaps longword...

A matter of taste and self-discipline while counting bits. ;-) I prefer "word" to stand for the "natural" unsigned integer - which has 32 bits with GNU Pascal. (But I also had trouble with this being a Borland Pascal programmer for many years ... ;-) Peter e-mail: peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de home address: D\"usseldorfer Str. 35, 45145 Essen, Germany WWW: http://agnes.dida.physik.uni-essen.de/~peter/