According to Christian Bockermann:

I've a little problem. I want to open an ASCII-file in one of my programs and then edit it. Of course, I did this with TP under MS-DOS, but I don't have any plan how this works in Linux ?!

Almost like with TP. `Append' becomes `Extend', and with anything older than gpc-971001 you need the `Assign' procedure from the BPcompat package. But then it should be the same:

Var Z: String ( 1024 );

Assign ( MyFile, 'foo.bar' ); reset ( MyFile ); while not eof ( MyFile ) do readln ( MyFile, Z ); close ( MyFile );

Does anyone know what to do ? I just downloaded the bpcompat-packet but the files don't compile under Linux. (I'm trying to get some of the units into a Linux-version)

That's a good thing! :-)

The problems you are having when compiling these Units under Linux come from the missing DPMI stuff and other DOS specifica. Under Linux, you have to use library functions and/or system calls instead.

Good luck,

Peter

Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [970201] maintainer GNU Pascal [971001] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [970125]