According to Kevin A. Foss:

1) is the following legal Pascal code? [...]

No. A type `file' variable does not accept arrays of the type it was declared with for reading and writing.

2) I take it GPC should do something more graceful than dump core (OS/2) or give a fatal signal (Linux), even if the source is invalid? :) This is with the 971001 beta.

(kevin3.pas) Yes, that's a bug. Thanks for the report! Peter Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [971005] maintainer GNU Pascal [971001] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [971005]